Scouring, not Scourging. That chapter of the Return of the King is called The Scouring of the Shire. I think it was a mistake to leave this out of the film version; it's a vital piece of the narrative structure.
> is there something I'm missing? Yep. There's only the one satellite, (a demo and a placeholder, a bit like Vista beta:) so a lot of the time it's not going to be above the horizon on your part of the rock. Yeah, a lot like Vista beta, come to think of it.
"John dove into the water" is American. Past tense of the verb to dive is dived.
"John dived into the water" is English. I think that one just snuck past you:)
Here is an answer I sent some time ago to the guy who runs www.freespeling.co.uk when his ideas were aired on the BBC. He is in favour of no spelling rules at all except phonetics (maybe fonetiks hoo noz?), but some of the arguments are sound in this context too.
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I am one of those people, and it may be luck or early grounding, who does not find it difficult to spell in the dictionary fashion, and I have some grave concerns about the concept of freespeling.
First of all, as someone who uses technical documentation every day, I believe that freespeling will introduce ambiguities. If I cannot rely on people always to spell the same word in the same way, how can I be sure that they actually mean the word I think they mean?
Secondly, it is my experience that freely spelled words are not, in fact, easier to read. I am not an educationalist, but I understand from limited reading that when one reads, one does not, in fact, construct the sound of the word by translating the page letters into phonetics. Rather, you learn the shape of a word, and the pattern 'yacht' is read and understood for its meaning without some intermediate step of working out that ach has the sound of a short o in this context. Dyslexia is an imperfection in this mechanism, and I don't think freespeling is going to help.
I distinctly remember, as a child, reading the word 'Colonel' and not knowing that it was the same word as the military rank, though I did know that word. It wouldn't have helped to have had it spelled Kernel, though, because then the abbreviation Col. throughout literature would have been obscured. That
brings me to a third point - if freespeling becomes widely adopted, people unfamiliar with the dictionary spellings will find it much harder to read the vast literary legacy which has arisen since the standardization of spelling. (And yes, I know that might have been standardisation!). I fear that we
shall be in a situation analogous to the everyday reader trying to get to grips with Chaucer, or even Shakespere in his original spellings. It's not easy to do; at least I can't do it.
I am sure that Shakesperian spellings are a product of pronunciation at the time of writing - Shakespere wrote 'dye' for the word we write as 'die' (or I do, in any event) because he pronounced it with two vowel sounds - dy-e. Will freespeling track the changes in pronunciation? If so, for which national or regional accent? In Bristol (UK), the speech pattern is often to add a terminal L sound to words ending in a vowel - should it be acceptable for Bristolians to write 'good ideal' when they want to convey 'good idea'? Or read Uncle Remus, written gloriously but phonetically in the speech pattern of a US slave at the turn of the nineteenth century. It's freely spelled, but it needs a good deal of intellectual effort to extract the meanings.
Finally, I am concerned about information retrieval. At the moment, much information on the World-Wide Web, and in electronic document repositories is automatically indexed word by word. (This is on the false premise that the words in a document tell you what it is about). If words are freely spelled, then the task of retrieval becomes so much harder. To find documents about 'building', one will need to search for 'bilding', too, and in many cases you won't even be able to guess how someone with an accent very different to your own might have spelled the word you are seeking.
I shall continue to correct spellings wherever I think that an error is a barrier to understanding.
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I'd also like to add that the Austrians attempted a simplified spelling of German, contrary to the article stating that German is already simply spelled, and have reverted in considerable measure. Sorry, no citation for that.
The object equal operators (=== and ~===) test two objects to see if they are
identical. Structured objects, lists, tables, records and such, may have identical
contents, but they are only equal if they are the same object.
Icon *can* be compiled, but especially these days there's hardly any need to do so.
To avoid the FA tracing the AC parent and sueing his a$$ off, I'm going to suggest that [s]he means match *fixtures*. Match fixers are not in the public domain, either:)
I think that this freedom is already implicit. Anyone can take GPL code, change it and not make the changes public, as long as they never distribute the modified code. If this isn't true, where do I post the kernel source tree that got corrupted by my recent disk crash and inept recovery? It's sure as hell *modified*.
When SCO vs IBM goes down in flames, maybe with Novell contributing its own flamethrower, there isn't going to be enough of SCO left to pump, just a few cinders blowing on the wind. At that point Redhat vs SCO gets decided too - I don't think SCO is short of things for their lawyers to do, to be honest.
Yes, indeed. The abstract is meant to summarize the main results of the forthcoming paper. Perhaps to claim primacy we could revert to the practice which Robert Hooke made use of. When he discovered the law which bears his name, he published the (Latin) statement of the law as an anagram, with the letters sorted alphabetically. Then if someone published later but before him, he could produce the anagram and say "Yes, but I knew this first". That's good if you're pathologically jealous about guarding the scientific insights you have made, of course. In this day and age you could publish a PGP encryption of orbital parameters.
Precious mod points? Make sensible contributions, and you'll get more mod points, though what someone with no clue what to do with an apostrophe will do with mod points I do not know. Troll. And no, today I have no mod points.
Goodbye.
This came up on Groklaw a little while back and I took the trouble to check up. The speech was made in the House of Commons (and not broadcast, of course). Extracts were read on the radio news that evening but not by Churchill, who did not record the speech during the war, either. So despite being embedded in the group consciousness, fewer than a few hundred people actually heard Churchill use those words during 1940.
The 'beer bottles' meme has no authority that I can trace, and I label it apocryphal. The Groklaw thread is here.
Most people here would sing a different tune if an incriminating but otherwise "crap" email from, say, a Utah software company CEO were to turn up.
Personally, I want email to be as respected as any other medium in both personal and corporate communication.
It appears to us that Australians have established the Commonwealth of Australia to permit the commission of acts that are proscribed in the U.S. and elsewhere. The Australians' willful, knowing and unauthorized action is a blatant violation of our nation's rights under applicable statutes and common law of the US Planetary Government.
If Australia does not take down its government and apply for status as a US Protected Territory within five (5) days of receipt of this letter, we shall be forced to, er, shout. Yes, that's it, and you'd better be ready, because it will be LOUD.
Well, it's not just ground-up beetles, you know. An inkjet printer cartridge is actually an amazing piece of technology - fast and accurate dispensation of picolitre quantities of up to four different fluids with registration tolerances measured in small fractions of a millimeter. Those fluids had better not have any lumps or inconsistencies...
Well, the poll was for favourite (sic) screen scientist, with the choices from fiction. I don't think that you will find that Sir David Attenborough would term himself a scientist.
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Vitamin A. Lethal levels of Vitamin A. Sheesh, doesn't anybody on Slashdot do any fact checking any more?
> viola. Virtually free energy.
Shee-ite! That's it! You do it with stringed musical instruments!
The French word you are looking for is voila.
Scouring, not Scourging. That chapter of the Return of the King is called The Scouring of the Shire. I think it was a mistake to leave this out of the film version; it's a vital piece of the narrative structure.
> is there something I'm missing? :) so a lot of the time it's not going to be above the horizon on your part of the rock. Yeah, a lot like Vista beta, come to think of it.
Yep. There's only the one satellite, (a demo and a placeholder, a bit like Vista beta
"John dove into the water" is American. Past tense of the verb to dive is dived. "John dived into the water" is English. I think that one just snuck past you :)
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I am one of those people, and it may be luck or early grounding, who does not find it difficult to spell in the dictionary fashion, and I have some grave concerns about the concept of freespeling.
First of all, as someone who uses technical documentation every day, I believe that freespeling will introduce ambiguities. If I cannot rely on people always to spell the same word in the same way, how can I be sure that they actually mean the word I think they mean?
Secondly, it is my experience that freely spelled words are not, in fact, easier to read. I am not an educationalist, but I understand from limited reading that when one reads, one does not, in fact, construct the sound of the word by translating the page letters into phonetics. Rather, you learn the shape of a word, and the pattern 'yacht' is read and understood for its meaning without some intermediate step of working out that ach has the sound of a short o in this context. Dyslexia is an imperfection in this mechanism, and I don't think freespeling is going to help.
I distinctly remember, as a child, reading the word 'Colonel' and not knowing that it was the same word as the military rank, though I did know that word. It wouldn't have helped to have had it spelled Kernel, though, because then the abbreviation Col. throughout literature would have been obscured. That brings me to a third point - if freespeling becomes widely adopted, people unfamiliar with the dictionary spellings will find it much harder to read the vast literary legacy which has arisen since the standardization of spelling. (And yes, I know that might have been standardisation!). I fear that we shall be in a situation analogous to the everyday reader trying to get to grips with Chaucer, or even Shakespere in his original spellings. It's not easy to do; at least I can't do it.
I am sure that Shakesperian spellings are a product of pronunciation at the time of writing - Shakespere wrote 'dye' for the word we write as 'die' (or I do, in any event) because he pronounced it with two vowel sounds - dy-e. Will freespeling track the changes in pronunciation? If so, for which national or regional accent? In Bristol (UK), the speech pattern is often to add a terminal L sound to words ending in a vowel - should it be acceptable for Bristolians to write 'good ideal' when they want to convey 'good idea'? Or read Uncle Remus, written gloriously but phonetically in the speech pattern of a US slave at the turn of the nineteenth century. It's freely spelled, but it needs a good deal of intellectual effort to extract the meanings.
Finally, I am concerned about information retrieval. At the moment, much information on the World-Wide Web, and in electronic document repositories is automatically indexed word by word. (This is on the false premise that the words in a document tell you what it is about). If words are freely spelled, then the task of retrieval becomes so much harder. To find documents about 'building', one will need to search for 'bilding', too, and in many cases you won't even be able to guess how someone with an accent very different to your own might have spelled the word you are seeking.
I shall continue to correct spellings wherever I think that an error is a barrier to understanding.
=================
I'd also like to add that the Austrians attempted a simplified spelling of German, contrary to the article stating that German is already simply spelled, and have reverted in considerable measure. Sorry, no citation for that.
OK, you guys are here from Groklaw, aren't you? This is Slashdot. Where's the @£###~ing cursing?
Beta edition.
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Icon *can* be compiled, but especially these days there's hardly any need to do so.To avoid the FA tracing the AC parent and sueing his a$$ off, I'm going to suggest that [s]he means match *fixtures*. Match fixers are not in the public domain, either :)
Four digits or *fewer*, dork.
> Somewhere... Not here, pal, at any rate.
I think that this freedom is already implicit. Anyone can take GPL code, change it and not make the changes public, as long as they never distribute the modified code. If this isn't true, where do I post the kernel source tree that got corrupted by my recent disk crash and inept recovery? It's sure as hell *modified*.
When SCO vs IBM goes down in flames, maybe with Novell contributing its own flamethrower, there isn't going to be enough of SCO left to pump, just a few cinders blowing on the wind. At that point Redhat vs SCO gets decided too - I don't think SCO is short of things for their lawyers to do, to be honest.
Yes, indeed. The abstract is meant to summarize the main results of the forthcoming paper. Perhaps to claim primacy we could revert to the practice which Robert Hooke made use of. When he discovered the law which bears his name, he published the (Latin) statement of the law as an anagram, with the letters sorted alphabetically. Then if someone published later but before him, he could produce the anagram and say "Yes, but I knew this first". That's good if you're pathologically jealous about guarding the scientific insights you have made, of course. In this day and age you could publish a PGP encryption of orbital parameters.
TFA says "all world-readable files" but I suspect it means all files readable in the Firefox user context.
Precious mod points? Make sensible contributions, and you'll get more mod points, though what someone with no clue what to do with an apostrophe will do with mod points I do not know. Troll. And no, today I have no mod points. Goodbye.
This came up on Groklaw a little while back and I took the trouble to check up. The speech was made in the House of Commons (and not broadcast, of course). Extracts were read on the radio news that evening but not by Churchill, who did not record the speech during the war, either. So despite being embedded in the group consciousness, fewer than a few hundred people actually heard Churchill use those words during 1940. The 'beer bottles' meme has no authority that I can trace, and I label it apocryphal. The Groklaw thread is here.
What RMS actually said was "That's a cunning stunt", but he is having therapy for his Spoonerism.
That's twice we've had an orchestral string instrument in this thread. En francais, on dit >, n'est-ce pas?
Most people here would sing a different tune if an incriminating but otherwise "crap" email from, say, a Utah software company CEO were to turn up. Personally, I want email to be as respected as any other medium in both personal and corporate communication.
It appears to us that Australians have established the Commonwealth of Australia to permit the commission of acts that are proscribed in the U.S. and elsewhere. The Australians' willful, knowing and unauthorized action is a blatant violation of our nation's rights under applicable statutes and common law of the US Planetary Government. If Australia does not take down its government and apply for status as a US Protected Territory within five (5) days of receipt of this letter, we shall be forced to, er, shout. Yes, that's it, and you'd better be ready, because it will be LOUD.
Well, it's not just ground-up beetles, you know. An inkjet printer cartridge is actually an amazing piece of technology - fast and accurate dispensation of picolitre quantities of up to four different fluids with registration tolerances measured in small fractions of a millimeter. Those fluids had better not have any lumps or inconsistencies...
You're new here, then? Try googling for 'goatse troll' for an explanation of this curious slashdot social phenomenon. Do it carefully.
I'm behind a corporate proxy at the moment, which blocks a Vivisimo search. Is there active content involved, or what? Any insights welcome, please.
Well, the poll was for favourite (sic) screen scientist, with the choices from fiction. I don't think that you will find that Sir David Attenborough would term himself a scientist.