Comments on: #396 – Pronounced (12 Comments)

By: kingklash

kingklash — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:14:23 +0000

If you use the alphabet from “On Beyond Zebra”, you make your computer worry.

By: pbarnrob

pbarnrob — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:01:37 +0000

-or if you’re talking about electronics, it’s ‘j’, since ‘i’ is already used (for instantaneous current).
And watch out for Google. If you ask for something commonly misspelled, it’ll happily find you all the instances of the oops, and maybe later, the right way. Trust, but Verify!

By: reynard61

reynard61 — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 01:42:56 +0000

That reminds me of the time that my mom tried looking up a medical term that had been created in the early 1990s in a 1970s-era medical dictionary.

By: das-g

das-g — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:31:54 +0000

Not necessarily. Like each feedback loop, it might either diverge entirely or it might converge to a stable equilibrium. (If there’s enough damping. If not, it might get into self-repeating sequences. One decade you’ll spell a word one way, the next decade another way, then a third way and then it starts all over gain. Maybe with a bit of chaotic oscillation added in. Repeating over and over again, just not exactly, similar to how fashion does. Spellin’ iz like phahtion, U sea. 0R VV1II 63, 3\/3|\|7you4II3why.)

By: Jordan

Jordan — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 15:05:41 +0000

The cool thing is that Google doesn’t uses a dictionary, it uses crawled sites. So eventually, once everybody uses Google to spell check, our language will degrade.

By: Shadlyn Wolfe

Shadlyn Wolfe — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:16:12 +0000

Yeah, it’s always eerie when my vocabulary is better than a dictionary’s…even if it is a spell-check dictionary.

By: mcnamara12

mcnamara12 — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:03:41 +0000

Justin, if you go into the spell check settings, you should be able to change it from American English to Canadian English. That should fix the problem with u’s.

I always run into trouble because I frequently have to type equations or science words that spell check doesn’t recognize. It took me forever to convince my computer that I was actually talking about the square root of minus 1, and not about myself. (stupid autocorrect)

By: J. G.

J. G. — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:56:20 +0000

Doen’t?

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:55:19 +0000

Being Canadian makes this one tough. My spell check doesn’t like the extra U’s we use (use we u’s? u’s we u’s? use we use?)

Example: colour, favourite, doughnut, armour, behaviour, etc.

Hono(u)rable mention to the re’s instead of er’s, such as calibre and centre.

By: kingklash

kingklash — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:54:30 +0000

What with all the TV Lawyer ads out and about, you think the doc would know the word.