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| From | Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: 64 bit CPU, QBasic and DOS? |
| Date | 2016-02-20 19:56 +0000 |
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On 2016-02-20, JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 09:37:55 -0600, "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
>> "Peter Flass" wrote:
>>
>>> gareth <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:na8j7u$hi$1@dont-email.me...
>>>>
>>>>> "Millennia" has two n's. The word "millenniums" is also acceptable now.
>>>>
>>>> But not to anyone who paid attention in the school classroom.
>>>>
>>>> Likewise, "antenna" and, "antennae" in radio.
>>>
>>> Things are going to hell in a handbasket. Beside trying to anglicize
>>> plurals of good latin words, people seem to want to stick apostrophes
>>> before all random s's.
Dave Barry once pointed out that the purpose of the apostrophe is to
warn the reader that an S is following.
>> The parens and 's' thing rings a bell with me. My theory as to why spelling
>> got worse: we used to have secretaries that knew these rules and they did
>> all our typing for us. When I started doing my own typing I realized that
>> she had been doing more than typing for me.
>>
>> If many of us went into a modern engineering office it would be a new world.
>> No one answers the phone, a machine does this. Secretaries have disappeared
>> or become administrative assistants, who *can* type, but there is a fair
>> chance that her boss can type faster than she can.
Perhaps. But perhaps not. I suspect a lot of bosses never knew how to type -
and furthermore are proud of it because it shows they're highly enough placed
to have someone to do it for them.
>> There is also an unrelated problem, the mis-spelling of homophones. I
>> attribute this to people doing too little reading. But OTOH I can't
>> remember when I was ever so young that my spelling was as bad as what I see
>> now; when I was young, it would have been impossible for me to have read
>> much. So I'm not happy with my own theory, it's just the best I can come up
>> with. I have to wonder if I just have more interest in spelling than the
>> average person?
I put the blame for homophones squarely on spelling checkers. Not that
they're being misused more often, but they're the one sort of error that
spelling checkers can't detect, which makes them a greater portion of
the errors that are left.
I have a spelling checker,
It came with my PC.
It plainly marks four my revue
Mistakes I cannot sea.
I've run this poem threw it,
I'm sure your pleased too no.
Its letter perfect in it's weigh:
My checker tolled me sew.
> I do agree that spelling has gotten worse. When I receive emails, back
> when I was working, from people with university degrees full of
> grammar and spelling errors, thats not good.
^
Ah, the hazards of spelling flames (he says, nervously proof-reading
this message again)...
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64 bit CPU, QBasic and DOS? "gareth" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2016-02-13 12:22 +0000
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Re: 64 bit CPU, QBasic and DOS? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-02-14 01:01 +0000
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Re: 64 bit CPU, QBasic and DOS? Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-02-19 09:47 +0000
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Re: 64 bit CPU, QBasic and DOS? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-02-19 06:36 -0800
Re: 64 bit CPU, QBasic and DOS? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-02-19 15:13 +0000
Re: 64 bit CPU, QBasic and DOS? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-02-19 19:48 +0000
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Re: 64 bit CPU, QBasic and DOS? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-02-20 19:56 +0000
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Re: 64 bit CPU, QBasic and DOS? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2016-02-15 23:50 -0500
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Re: 64 bit CPU, QBasic and DOS? Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-02-17 06:56 -0700
Re: 64 bit CPU, QBasic and DOS? "hgww" <hgww@gmail.com> - 2016-02-17 14:05 +1100
Re: 64 bit CPU, QBasic and DOS? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-02-14 00:53 +0000
Re: 64 bit CPU, QBasic and DOS? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2016-02-16 16:11 +0000
Re: 64 bit CPU, QBasic and DOS? "gareth" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2016-02-16 17:04 +0000
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