Am I stupid? (Rant, but not OT)

  • Thread starter Lance M Hillier, Sr
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Bob Adams

DC said:
DC wrote:
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 22:58:36 GMT, Lance M Hillier, Sr

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Lance M Hillier, Sr
The Guerrilla Computor

Are you *ever* going to fix your sig? Seriously, I want to know.
What's wrong with my sig?
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It is invalid. Consequently, it does not get snipped when someone
replies to your posts, leaving us to have to snip it manually.

The proper format is "-- " <- note the trailing space

Please fix it, as a courtesy to others.
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Do you mind me saying,
"Kiss mine.... you're a fool"?
If you do, KIss my ass, fool...
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Yes, you're stupid!
--
regards,
bob

You are a fluke of the universe... You have no right to be here.
Whether you can hear it or not, the universe is laughing behind your
back.
 
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22 Aug 2003 21:04:48 GMT
Blinky the Shark ha scritto:
My conclusions:

Nice job with only six errors!

It looks like four of your errors were of a specific type:

To double letters, or not to double letters; that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of
outrageous meatware spelling handicaps, or to take arms against a sea
of errors, and, by opposing, end them. ...

Ay, there's the rub.
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You're right. For me it's also difficult to put the words together...
But frequenting these NGs I'm learning a lot.
 
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Blinky the Shark

You're right. For me it's also difficult to put the words together...
But frequenting these NGs I'm learning a lot.
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Nothing like practice for honing a skill, or, in some cases, starting
one. :) That and paying attention.

I went back for a look, and - as I proposed - some of my errors *were*
in the -able/-ible category. Damn 'em! :)
 
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Blinky the Shark

Don't feel bad. I missed 9 and I'm considered a *good* speller. It's a
tough test!
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These are the correct spellings of the ones I missed:
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* desiccate
* indispensable
* liquefy
* minuscule
* judgment
* inoculate
* supersede
* irresistible
* all right - However, I think this one is changing due to popular
usage; "alright" is probably going to become "correct" spelling.
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There's another issue there, and it's kind of like "setup"/"set up". It
involves "Alright, alright...I'll mow the lawn" versus "he got the test
answers all right". I believe you're right about the first one being on
the road to acceptance -- but it's still plainly wrong for the second
usage.

As for the other pair: you "set up" (verb) something, but when
you're done it's your "setup" (noun).

Does that explain alot? Or did it help noone? ;)
 
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Lance M Hillier, Sr

Don't feel bad. I missed 9 and I'm considered a *good* speller. It's a
tough test!

These are the correct spellings of the ones I missed:

* indispensable
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<snipped>
missed one, indispensable, so much for my Scrabble (TM) dictionary
ALSO, I apologize to the group and the author of the post on my signature.
It was in bad taste, and I put the stick wrapped in barbed wire down bloody
after I beat myself for my lack of judgment. What seemed "cute" last night
is not today, and I offended myself in rereading it. So, sorry people, and
it won't be repeated.
Lance M Hillier, Sr
The Guerrilla Computor
 
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Blinky the Shark

Back to the point, I have seen sites or documentation that made me
wonder about the soundness of the programming. As was suggested, in
some cases English might be a second language. Writing the docs or
html after focusing on the program for a long duration makes it pretty
easy to lax up.
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Certainly not everyone has English as their primary language. But if
(the generic) you needed documentation in French, would you leave it to
Babelfish (or your own bad translation)?
 
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Loki Harfagr

Still, most of the translated docs inside boxes
look like they really were translated thru systran
and typed down by some delocalized typing pool :D)
No, but I'm the one who got smoked by the french guy on the
English test too. <G>
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But that was for reading/writing, will you listen
to my accent you'll feel saved ;)
 
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Adler-Auge

Arrrghhhh.... if I see another person say he/she is a programmer, with all
the misspellings
in their posts, am I stupid, or do I want THAT in my computer as a program?

C'mon programmers.... you want to 'sell' your reputations; using
misspellings in the simplest of
forums, yet want me to believe you are taking care of the $1,000's I've
spent on my system and you care about me?

If you have a good prgram, TREMENDOUS, I want it.... BUT, if you sell it to
me with misspellings in your message, KNOW I know your code is sloppy, and
if you're looking for THE job at MIcrosoft, so do they (I know, been there
done that).... clean up your act (shareware authors too) .... after all, I
don't think you want to be known as amateurs breaking into the big time, do
you? Be a pro, and treat us like we've got brains, beyond Mayer's "A verbal
contract isn't worth the paper it's written on...."
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You misspelled "now" at, "KNOW I know your code is sloppy..."
 
T

Terry Russell

do

Many a slip twixt digit and key I find it don't muchly bovva me.
You misspelled "now" at, "KNOW I know your code is sloppy..."
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I know ( I know you know, but now you know I know you know )
I think you know ( I know you know, but now you know I know you know )
but do you know how I think you know ( I know you know, but now you know I
know you know ).

Programmers spend all day conjuring a semblance of abstract meaning
into arbitrary and ephemeral patterns. Language is just another arbitrary
pattern.
They are also half blind and probably suffer RSI.
 
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DC

I can hear Bill Gates singing a song from David Alan Coe's famous
"X-Rated" album,

"This will only hurt for a little while...."
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Funny, I'm feeling no pain. Oh, wait! I don't use Windows...
nevermind. };O)
Wonder if he'll ever wake up to the idea that *I* own my computer, not
Microsoft.
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/me

not holding breath
 

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