__/ [William Tasso] on Wednesday 16 November 2005 11:57 \__
> Writing in news:alt.www.webmaster
> From the safety of the schestowitz.com / MCC / Manchester University
> cafeteria
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
>
>> __/ [Roy Schestowitz] on Wednesday 16 November 2005 11:47 \__
>>
>>> __/ [William Tasso] on Wednesday 16 November 2005 11:44 \__
>>>
>>>> Writing in news:alt.www.webmaster
>>>> From the safety of the cafeteria
>>>> Dylan Parry <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
>>>>
>>>>> As if the love poetry wasn't enough, William Tasso just had to say:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Because it ain't what you don't know that gets you, it's what you
>>>>>> don't
>>>>>> know you don't know.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you don't know that you don't know it, how do you know when it has
>>>>> got you?
>>>>
>>>> hrmm - to answer that requires a diversion into the philosophy and
>>>> logistics of surprise.
>>>>
>>>>> Or do you just not know that it has :s
>>>>
>>>> I think therefore I am.
>>>
>>> And I think I think, therfore I think I am.
>> ^^^^^^^^
>>
>> I think I also need to begin to proofread before dispatching.
>
> It's a fact that anyone who does their own proofreading has a fool for a
> client.
Yes, a better pair of eyes is always a better solution:
* Less boresome reading
* More knowledge (~2 brains)
* Critical reading (rather than selective)
> I thought you were reverting to some olde worlde version of English ;)
Notice how repeatedly T, R, F, and E (vicinity in QWERTY) appear in
"therefore". The pattern of strokes can easily be messed up and it always
happens with the same sets of words and then gets detected by a
spellchecker. Synthesis <-> synthsis is a hugely common typo I can think
of. Sometimes I would spellcheck a document to find the exact same typo
repeated more than 3 times -- all to do with typing habits. More oddly,
the habit rarely resolves itself.
Roy
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