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Antarctic Telescope Funded
An anonymous reader writes "SpaceflightNow reports that a multi-institutional team of scientists led by the University of Chicago will receive $16.6 million from the National Science Foundation over the next five years to build a telescope at the South Pole aimed at piercing one of the darkest secrets of the universe. The telescope will help scientists to reveal new details regarding a mysterious phenomenon called dark energy, which makes the expansion of the universe accelerate."
Yeah, I spell for shit, and this still popped out at me. Would someone code a slashcode spell-checker, already?
WTF is it with americans mispelling Antarctica??
Its been mentioned here a few times in the last several weeks (like that poll, etc), and it has ALWAYS been mispelt!
I even have some american sci-fi shows and stuff here on dvd (i'm australian) and even on THERE they mispronounce Antarctica, saying it as "Antartica" just as they spell it.
WTF IS WITH THIS?!
Are americans so brain dead they ALWAYS have to mispell it, and pronounce it the mispelt way too?
D.
You can tell how powerful someone is by the magnitude of the crime they can commit and be able to get away with.
Learn to spell, you bitch tits!!!!!!!!!!!1
Its antarCtica!!!!!
Its antarCtica!!!!!
Its antarCtica!!!!!
And that's your fucking *president*
Do you perchance mean tartaric acid?
This correction brought to you by a literate American who has always spelled and pronounced "arctic" and its derivative correctly, educated in a rural Indiana school.
I suspect various dialects of a given language have common misspellings. An American, I tend to spell antarctic as antarctic but I do feel a subtle pull to spell it the other way. Some words I have a hard time with. Caffeine is one that gives me trouble. I know how it's spelled, but if I don't pay explicit attention when I'm typing it, it will come out as caffience. Another one is interesting. If I don't pay attention to that one, it ends up being intersting.
There are probably others that trip me up like that, but they're infrequent enough to be under my radar, and sometimes I just don't care. Does this mean I'm unintelligent or illiterate? During my 30 years, I've read thousands of books, a hundred or so of those were before finishing first grade. I've written 2 books, and have helped edit 6 more. And over time, the caffience and intersting errors have become more prominant, as if my use of the language and typing are reinforcing the habit. It's almost hardwired at this point.
This leads me to believe the cause lies within how memories, common motions, and thoughts, are imprinted within the brain. Do a certain number of things so many times in succession of each other, and the paths begin to cross.
For example, the ein grouping of letters. In what context of words do those groupings occur most frequently in english lexicons?
stein
caffeine
And others.
And how about the reverse?
science
sentient
The implications of this could be beneficial towards AI research if one were to carry out
an investigation of certain
hmmmmm, getting sleepy.... *pulls plug*