No "A" in D-E-F-I-N-I-T-E-L-Y
06-10-2010, 02:41 PM
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No "A" in D-E-F-I-N-I-T-E-L-Y
What's the most commonly misspelled word in the entire English language?
Definitely "DEFINITELY"!!!
I've seen "definately" about a zillion times, also definatly, defiantly, defanatly, and a bunch of other combinations. A bit niggly, I know, but PLEASE can we spell the word the way it was intended?
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Definitely "DEFINITELY"!!!
I've seen "definately" about a zillion times, also definatly, defiantly, defanatly, and a bunch of other combinations. A bit niggly, I know, but PLEASE can we spell the word the way it was intended?
Off my soapbox now. Life must go on.
06-10-2010, 03:28 PM
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Maybe fix the typos in your signature before you start pointing out the mistakes of other's
Maybe fix the typos in your signature before you start pointing out the mistakes of other's
If you don''t care about rising air, you''re square, mon frère!
06-10-2010, 04:02 PM
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His signature contains no typos
RCU has a bug that occasionally causes an apostrophe to double. So those are not quotes, it is two apostrophes and he has no control over it.
And he is definitely correct, The root of the word is "Finite".
Although, when a word is misspelled it doesn't bother me as much as when a word is misused.
To, Too, and Two
I went to the bar and had two drinks, which was not too much.
Then my friend showed up. He was drinking too. Before long, it was two in the morning and we both had too much to drink.
When we came to, the two of us decided that we would definitely never drink too much again
RCU has a bug that occasionally causes an apostrophe to double. So those are not quotes, it is two apostrophes and he has no control over it.
And he is definitely correct, The root of the word is "Finite".
Although, when a word is misspelled it doesn't bother me as much as when a word is misused.
To, Too, and Two
I went to the bar and had two drinks, which was not too much.
Then my friend showed up. He was drinking too. Before long, it was two in the morning and we both had too much to drink.
When we came to, the two of us decided that we would definitely never drink too much again
06-10-2010, 06:14 PM
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What's the most commonly misspelled word in the entire English language?
Definitely "DEFINITELY"!!!
I've seen "definately" about a zillion times, also definatly, defiantly, defanatly, and a bunch of other combinations. A bit niggly, I know, but PLEASE can we spell the word the way it was intended?
Off my soapbox now. Life must go on.
What's the most commonly misspelled word in the entire English language?
Definitely "DEFINITELY"!!!
I've seen "definately" about a zillion times, also definatly, defiantly, defanatly, and a bunch of other combinations. A bit niggly, I know, but PLEASE can we spell the word the way it was intended?
Off my soapbox now. Life must go on.
Notice word? lol, just playing man.
06-10-2010, 06:28 PM
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My wife is an English major. Reading internet forum posts drives her nuts sometimes. I guess I'm cynical enough to ignore it for the most part. Well, except for run-on sentences, that is. Those drive me up a wall.
06-10-2010, 10:10 PM
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Don't forget the constant misuse of: there, their and they're. There points at something as: There is the plane. Their is a possessive as: Their plane was stolen. They're is a contraction of they and are as: They're late.
06-11-2010, 12:31 AM
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ORIGINAL: scale only 4 me
Maybe fix the typos in your signature before you start pointing out the mistakes of other's
Maybe fix the typos in your signature before you start pointing out the mistakes of other's
If you don''t care about rising air, you''re square, mon frère!
06-11-2010, 01:03 AM
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You guys are the best! I had no idea my post would get so many lively responses. Ain't this RCU group stuff fun, though?
And yes, MinnFlyer gets a sticker, for having identified a bug in the text of my signature. I have tried "allot" to get those dadgum quotes to turn into apostrophes, to no avail. Defintinely a problem! BTW, gboulton you also get a sticker, for that superb cartoon post. I copped it to my hard-drive for future use.
Ah, so many grammatical abominations, and so few to blow the whistle on them, eh? I predict the day will come when people ask Webster to just freakin' change the spelling of definitely, and forever make the problem moot.
And yes, MinnFlyer gets a sticker, for having identified a bug in the text of my signature. I have tried "allot" to get those dadgum quotes to turn into apostrophes, to no avail. Defintinely a problem! BTW, gboulton you also get a sticker, for that superb cartoon post. I copped it to my hard-drive for future use.
Ah, so many grammatical abominations, and so few to blow the whistle on them, eh? I predict the day will come when people ask Webster to just freakin' change the spelling of definitely, and forever make the problem moot.
06-11-2010, 07:02 AM
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But the title "Grammar nazi" does make me chuckle....
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FWIW, I can explain the double apostrophe thing for y'all...Pretty much any database engine that speaks standard SQL (which is to say, about all of them) uses the "single quote", otherwise known as an apostrophe, to indicate a group of text. For example, it might be looking forsomethingwhere someone's last name is Brown, so you'd see:
SELECT * from users where LastName = 'Brown'
Great...no worries. Unless the text being searched for happens to have an apostrophe IN it, such as the last name O'Brien. Suddenly, that becomes 'O'Brien' which, as far as the DB engine is concerned, is 'O' followed by the command Brien....which makes no sense.
The "escape" for single quotes is...you guessed it...a double single quote. (Note, not a " double quote...but two single quote characters)
So, most software that needs to deal with database engines has various code to find a ' in text, and turn it into '' .
Now, I couldn't say where or why, exactly, but it's fairly obvious that for SOME reason, RCU performs this function TWICE on signatures...turning ' into '''' ... which, if you 'do the math' would come out as '' once we've sorted out all the escapes. The even MORE amusing "bug", of course, is that the NEXT time you view/save your profile, if '''' is there...it does it AGAIN, making it '''''''' ... which, of course, now comes out as '''' (see my sig below) and so forth.
I know...completely off topic, and PROLLY boring as heck...but hey, this is what happens when you let database nerds out of THERE cages.