Are all programmers crap at speling?
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^(deliberate) The standard of spelling here in t'Lounge and other CP Fora is not particularly high, even allowing for ESL and Yanks. I am one of the worlds worst spellists, but tend to make only typing errors when coding. I know, I know, the first one is touching the keyboard at all. So, is this a general trend or am I just imagining it?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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^(deliberate) The standard of spelling here in t'Lounge and other CP Fora is not particularly high, even allowing for ESL and Yanks. I am one of the worlds worst spellists, but tend to make only typing errors when coding. I know, I know, the first one is touching the keyboard at all. So, is this a general trend or am I just imagining it?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
it's imagined. someone incepted your Lounge time.
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^(deliberate) The standard of spelling here in t'Lounge and other CP Fora is not particularly high, even allowing for ESL and Yanks. I am one of the worlds worst spellists, but tend to make only typing errors when coding. I know, I know, the first one is touching the keyboard at all. So, is this a general trend or am I just imagining it?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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^(deliberate) The standard of spelling here in t'Lounge and other CP Fora is not particularly high, even allowing for ESL and Yanks. I am one of the worlds worst spellists, but tend to make only typing errors when coding. I know, I know, the first one is touching the keyboard at all. So, is this a general trend or am I just imagining it?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Oh 'Enry! I am so disappointed in you. I thought you dictated and had a girl do the typing stuff for you. I do try to spell proper like what I learned in school, but sometimes the keys move about so I blame Spick Malignent, the famous tipping error.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb -- they're often *students*, for heaven's sake. -- (Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett)
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Oh 'Enry! I am so disappointed in you. I thought you dictated and had a girl do the typing stuff for you. I do try to spell proper like what I learned in school, but sometimes the keys move about so I blame Spick Malignent, the famous tipping error.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb -- they're often *students*, for heaven's sake. -- (Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett)
Ah, you have one of them Maltron jobbies do you?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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^(deliberate) The standard of spelling here in t'Lounge and other CP Fora is not particularly high, even allowing for ESL and Yanks. I am one of the worlds worst spellists, but tend to make only typing errors when coding. I know, I know, the first one is touching the keyboard at all. So, is this a general trend or am I just imagining it?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
I rarely make spelling mistakes in CP or on other website because I get a red squiggle to spank my ass. One common mistake I do do thou is use the wrong word due to typing to fast or even pluralise something I should not However, when I am typing important work related stuff then I take much more care with spelling, grammar, etc. My coding rarely suffers due to compiler errors, and when I am coding string data then I do so at a slower rate to minimize mistakes Basically, when in isn't work related, I just don't care about the odd mistake or two
I may or may not be responsible for my own actions
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I rarely make spelling mistakes in CP or on other website because I get a red squiggle to spank my ass. One common mistake I do do thou is use the wrong word due to typing to fast or even pluralise something I should not However, when I am typing important work related stuff then I take much more care with spelling, grammar, etc. My coding rarely suffers due to compiler errors, and when I am coding string data then I do so at a slower rate to minimize mistakes Basically, when in isn't work related, I just don't care about the odd mistake or two
I may or may not be responsible for my own actions
musefan wrote:
Basically, when in isn't work related, I just don't care about the odd mistake or two
I think that must apply to many others too.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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^(deliberate) The standard of spelling here in t'Lounge and other CP Fora is not particularly high, even allowing for ESL and Yanks. I am one of the worlds worst spellists, but tend to make only typing errors when coding. I know, I know, the first one is touching the keyboard at all. So, is this a general trend or am I just imagining it?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
It's of course a mistake in our basic diet... it has been demonstrated that an excess of bacon and cofee [^]in blood makes people to make more typoz... :rolleyes:
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^(deliberate) The standard of spelling here in t'Lounge and other CP Fora is not particularly high, even allowing for ESL and Yanks. I am one of the worlds worst spellists, but tend to make only typing errors when coding. I know, I know, the first one is touching the keyboard at all. So, is this a general trend or am I just imagining it?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Henry Minute wrote:
So, is this a general trend or am I just imagining it?
Jes. :)
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It's of course a mistake in our basic diet... it has been demonstrated that an excess of bacon and cofee [^]in blood makes people to make more typoz... :rolleyes:
[www.tamelectromecanica.com] Robots, CNC and PLC machines for grinding and polishing.
Nonsense. Coffee doesn't affect my typing at all.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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Nonsense. Coffee doesn't affect my typing at all.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
:laugh:
[www.tamelectromecanica.com] Robots, CNC and PLC machines for grinding and polishing.
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Henry Minute wrote:
So, is this a general trend or am I just imagining it?
Jes. :)
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Dank
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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^(deliberate) The standard of spelling here in t'Lounge and other CP Fora is not particularly high, even allowing for ESL and Yanks. I am one of the worlds worst spellists, but tend to make only typing errors when coding. I know, I know, the first one is touching the keyboard at all. So, is this a general trend or am I just imagining it?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Hey! I even list this in my profile!
OriginalGriff wrote:
Has problems spelling the word "the".
Thank goodness for the Chrome spell checker... :-D
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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Dank
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Welkom. :)
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they preserve indentation, improve readability, and make me actually look at the code.
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^(deliberate) The standard of spelling here in t'Lounge and other CP Fora is not particularly high, even allowing for ESL and Yanks. I am one of the worlds worst spellists, but tend to make only typing errors when coding. I know, I know, the first one is touching the keyboard at all. So, is this a general trend or am I just imagining it?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
The inverse would be false: not all bad spellers are good programmers. :)
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they preserve indentation, improve readability, and make me actually look at the code.
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^(deliberate) The standard of spelling here in t'Lounge and other CP Fora is not particularly high, even allowing for ESL and Yanks. I am one of the worlds worst spellists, but tend to make only typing errors when coding. I know, I know, the first one is touching the keyboard at all. So, is this a general trend or am I just imagining it?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Yes, probably from code notation policies and Hungarian prefixes, misspelled words just look normal.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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^(deliberate) The standard of spelling here in t'Lounge and other CP Fora is not particularly high, even allowing for ESL and Yanks. I am one of the worlds worst spellists, but tend to make only typing errors when coding. I know, I know, the first one is touching the keyboard at all. So, is this a general trend or am I just imagining it?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
I've always been crap at spelling, and there are certain words I have a complete blindness for. For example 'throat' usually takes me 3 or 4 stabs before the spellchecker can work out what I am trying to spell. I generally start off with throught and get worse from there. Also I tend to spell better if not thinking, otherwise there are some words I cannot decide how to spell if directly thinking about them.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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^(deliberate) The standard of spelling here in t'Lounge and other CP Fora is not particularly high, even allowing for ESL and Yanks. I am one of the worlds worst spellists, but tend to make only typing errors when coding. I know, I know, the first one is touching the keyboard at all. So, is this a general trend or am I just imagining it?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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^(deliberate) The standard of spelling here in t'Lounge and other CP Fora is not particularly high, even allowing for ESL and Yanks. I am one of the worlds worst spellists, but tend to make only typing errors when coding. I know, I know, the first one is touching the keyboard at all. So, is this a general trend or am I just imagining it?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
I don't think you're imagining it. The spelling ability of adult native English speakers appears to have fallen in the past 10-15 years. CNN's TV and online media are prime examples (at least in the US). Txtspk may have something to do with it. Most software engineers I know also find it difficult to correctly write technical documentation. This seems to be a marked change from the '80s. /ravi
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^(deliberate) The standard of spelling here in t'Lounge and other CP Fora is not particularly high, even allowing for ESL and Yanks. I am one of the worlds worst spellists, but tend to make only typing errors when coding. I know, I know, the first one is touching the keyboard at all. So, is this a general trend or am I just imagining it?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Yess, thay r.
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