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  • M Marc Clifton

    This is from an enumeration: Completeed = 2, I could understand Compleeted, but this just leaves me teed. Now I'll have this shyte in my code. :mad: :sigh:

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    englebart
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    Marc does have a dilemma, he needs to future proof in case they do correct the typo later! We have a good one. unigue for unique. We never changed it, intent is clear and testing is already completed. I blame it on the font designers as it was a person who is very fluent in English, but English was their second language. Probably only ever "read" the word unique in text with a font like this that shows little q without the right facing tail. qgqg

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    • F Forogar

      I have to put up with a production code path containing "Intergrated" instead of "Integrated". :mad: It's been there for years so no-one wants to touch it! :doh:

      - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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      Kirk 10389821
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      Wow, to not fix that is AMAZING... What thought process causes this? Is it risk aversion? Test Aversion? It would be fixed by the next build if I worked there. Especially if this affected the client (which makes the company look stupid if the client notices)... Curious... What is it that causes it not to be addressed/fixed?

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      • M MarkTJohnson

        Do y'all pronounce the words kul-owr or kul-er, on-owr or on-er, val-owr or val-er? No ow, no need for that 'u' in the word. Granted, as a Southerner we do pronounce some words, um, differently, than you would expect. There is a town in Northwest Georgia whose name is spelled Armuchee. Correctly pronounced, meaning the way the locals pronounce their town name, it is are-mer-chee. They add an extra R in the word. Atlanta news stations hate when it gets in the news because they always mispronounce it. I don't press a button, I mash it.

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        MarkTJohnson wrote:

        There is a town in Northwest Georgia whose name is spelled Armuchee. Correctly pronounced, meaning the way the locals pronounce their town name, it is are-mer-chee. They add an extra R in the word. Atlanta news stations hate when it gets in the news because they always mispronounce it.

        So know I know where all those missing "r"s in Boston went. :java:

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        • M Marc Clifton

          This is from an enumeration: Completeed = 2, I could understand Compleeted, but this just leaves me teed. Now I'll have this shyte in my code. :mad: :sigh:

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          Lost User
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          In case you can't sleep, this is legal:

          public enum MangledEnglish {
          Completeed = 2,
          Completed = 2
          // etc.
          }

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          • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

            Marc Clifton wrote:

            But the damn thing should be fixed

            True, especially when it's "third party" (they should fix it)!

            Marc Clifton wrote:

            Or is it "Spelt"

            Spelled, unless you're into wheat[^] ;)

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            DerekT P
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            Either is correct, unless you're using American English, when it's spelled.

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            • M Marc Clifton

              Ravi Bhavnani wrote:

              I just hope it isn't customer facing.

              No, but when I serialize the enum value to a string (I don't trust this company to not change the ordinal values), I don't want the client-side Javascript to continue this atrocity, so it looks like I'll have either a special handler case or map the enum with the typo to my own enum and deal with ordinal value changes if they happen. Or some other half-assed solution.

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              Ravi Bhavnani
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              Marc Clifton wrote:

              I don't trust this company to not change the ordinal values

              Say it ain't so!  :omg: /ravi

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              • M Marc Clifton

                Sander Rossel wrote:

                A typo could happen to anyone really.

                Of course. But the damn thing should be fixed. Like you did. Good for you! Sadly, because this is third party software, I can't fix it. I can only "convert" it: var myEnum = (ProperlySpelledEnum)yourF*ckedUpEnumValue; Or is it "Spelt", because that's what the Brits and other more civilized people would probably use. :sigh:

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                Alister Morton
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                Marc Clifton wrote:

                Or is it "Spelt", because that's what the Brits and other more civilized people would probably use.

                Certainly always has been in the part of Britain I grew up in. Spelt and spelled are both used as past participles, although spelt feels more natural to me. Yes, spelt is also a type of wheat. See also smelt - past participle of smell, a type of fish, and an ore extraction process.

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                • M Marc Clifton

                  This is from an enumeration: Completeed = 2, I could understand Compleeted, but this just leaves me teed. Now I'll have this shyte in my code. :mad: :sigh:

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                  Back in 2000, I encountered "delimeter", but the code had nothing to do with the length of a subway sandwich.

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                  • M Marc Clifton

                    This is from an enumeration: Completeed = 2, I could understand Compleeted, but this just leaves me teed. Now I'll have this shyte in my code. :mad: :sigh:

                    Latest Article - A 4-Stack rPI Cluster with WiFi-Ethernet Bridging Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802

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                    CodeWraith
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                    It was not exactly a typo that went into a small document browser which was rushedly sent out for the U.N.. The day before I had added a toolbar and a menu item with the text 'Toolbar ein' or 'Toolbar aus' (= show toolbar, hide toolbar). At least I should have written that. Instead, I wrote 'Einbartool' and 'Ausbartool', just for fun. Then, the next day, it was released in a hurry and my nonsense texts were still in it. Within an hour we had a mail with the following question: 'Qu'est-ce que un Einbartool?

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                    • C CodeWraith

                      It was not exactly a typo that went into a small document browser which was rushedly sent out for the U.N.. The day before I had added a toolbar and a menu item with the text 'Toolbar ein' or 'Toolbar aus' (= show toolbar, hide toolbar). At least I should have written that. Instead, I wrote 'Einbartool' and 'Ausbartool', just for fun. Then, the next day, it was released in a hurry and my nonsense texts were still in it. Within an hour we had a mail with the following question: 'Qu'est-ce que un Einbartool?

                      I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

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                      Super Lloyd
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                      It's unacceptable! Any self respecting French person should instantly understand this hybrid German-English word! Instead I wonder, why not Zweibartool? What has Australia to do with it?! :o

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