Spellcheck please

[smestas]

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Amzanig huh?

[alfasudinusa]

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Originally Posted by smestas Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?

[tubut]

Hmmm, zis zread reminds me of zis pice floting zru the Internet a whil ago:

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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English". In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this Will make sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k".This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter. In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a Deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away. By the 4th yer peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords Kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru. If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. Zen ve vil rul ze world!!!

[tubut]

This may only be for computer geeks, but I can't resist to post the gem below that appeared in the Linux developers archive 5 years ago (almost to the day).

In the quote below, Paul (Rusty) Russell (who developed the Ipchains and Iptables firewall software included with the free Linux operating system) delivered a so-called kernel tree "patch" (a correction of source code for computers) for a "Trivial name typo" to Linus Torvalds (who is the reason why the Linux operating system exists) that results in correct spelling of his name.

The snippet starts with the message header, followed by an explanation why the patch should be applied, and then a response from Linus, referring to a shortage of the letters "l", "r" and "d". The fact that writing serious code can be fun is what makes this snippet a classic, if only in my opinion :

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From: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@linuxcare.com.au&gt; To: torvalds@transmeta.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Subject: [PATCH] Trivial name typo. Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 15:24:07 +1100 Just noticed this... 2.2 and 2.3. This Russel disease must be stamped out before it becomes widespread. Rust. --- linux-2.2/net/core/dev.c.~1~ Sun Dec 5 13:24:45 1999 +++ linux-2.2/net/core/dev.c Thu Dec 23 15:20:21 1999 @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ * Adam Sulmicki : Bug Fix : Network Device Unload * A network device unload needs to purge * the backlog queue. - * Paul Rusty Russel : SIOCSIFNAME + * Paul Rusty Russell : SIOCSIFNAME */ #include <asm/uaccess.h> -- Hacking time. From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> To: Rusty Russell <rusty@linuxcare.com.au> cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH] Trivial name typo. Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 20:34:01 -0800 (PST) On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Rusty Russell wrote: > > Just noticed this... 2.2 and 2.3. This Russel disease must be stamped > out before it becomes widespread. There's a serious shortage of the etter "", and we're trying to seriousy cut down our usage of the etter in order to improve conditions in the worst affected areas. ettes "" an "" ae aso affecte, and may une cetain cicumstances be epace with the ette "x" which is in pentifu suppy. Patch appie, inus

[papajam]

That Cambridge study is quite interesting. I had no problem reading the posts by both Simon and Hans at my normal reading speed (which most certainly wouldn't win me any speedreading awards though ).

[sprintgtc]

Hans,
Isn't it "Where is my Alpha Romero at?"

Happy holidays guys,

[alfasudinusa]

Hi Mike,

actually it should read:

Where'd be mah Alpha Romero parked at, or something like that.

When I am in Seattle next time I would really like to see your breathtakingly
gorgeous Giulia Sedan. Theee BEST color combo there is.

If you make it down here we can have a drive in the Sud or in the 90.

Happy holidays

Hans

[cor]

It's a non-discussion folks, don't we all speak and understand the Alfa lengwitch???!!....

[PSB]

Its all the printing presses falt! Before that you sounded it out. Now we have to type too! Also meny on these sites are from all over the world. and This is not there 1st Lang. .
Heck I can not even read my own stuff, so its very frustating for some of us who are some what limited. for what ever reason, stroke, health, 2nd language, what ever.
Spell check would be nice. My computer is so old it does not have spell check, Now thats a outrage!
It will help but not cure to have spell check.
Just today I was reading a post and did not know what a Dizzy was from our friends down under. afetr a few times I think its a distributor.
Well just 2 cents from one of the worst writers here
Happy Holidays

[sono veL.O.ce]

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On some Alfas the hood lock is at the firewall,and VEERY difficult to get at. I have wired an "emergancy" release cable through a hole in the firewall into the driver's compartment on every Alfa I have had since the cable broke on a 2600 sprint I had some 30 years ago.

[GianniB]

he, he, he, good one sono.

Hello pot, this is kettle, you're black...

Chow,

[Alfisto Steve]

I was not raised on phonetics and spelling is not my strong suit but I can usually spot a misspelled word and can live with it. But, that being said, things like CAP LOCK or all lower case seems like a easy way out for those who have somewhat of a digital impairment.

[alfasudinusa]

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Originally Posted by Alfisto Steve I was not raised on phonetics and spelling is not my strong suit but I can usually spot a misspelled word and can live with it. But, that being said, things like CAP LOCK or all lower case seems like a easy way out for those who have somewhat of a digital impairment.

[eugenel]

To all alfisti who wince in the presence of mangled spelling, punctuation and grammar, I can recommend the excellent:

"Eats shoots and leaves" by Lynne Truss

A great Christmas read for the part time pedant ...

Eugene

PS. Available in the UK. Don't know about the States.

[cor]

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Originally Posted by alfasudinusa HI, WERE DO U SEE THE PROBLEM WITH TAHT??? when people wants to make a important point than the use all capitol letters Sorry, I could not resist. Happy holidays from Oceanside, CA Hans