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occurance/occurrence/occurence

bozobozo Posts: 70
edited 2010-10-04 06:14 in Propeller 1
for the next release of the propeller tool,

when you do a search and replace, and the tool returns with the number of replacements it made, there's a spelling fail ...

it should be 'occurrences', not 'occurances'

I don't know why but I'm feeling pedantic this morning.

Probably been coding too much assembler lately.

cheers,
Mark
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  • Dr_AculaDr_Acula Posts: 5,484
    edited 2010-09-30 18:04
    I wonder when a typo/misspelling becomes a word in itself? "teh" on google returns 135 million hits and even has its own web page. That is a lot of occurances/occurrences...
  • prof_brainoprof_braino Posts: 4,313
    edited 2010-09-30 18:06
    pwned!
  • Martin HodgeMartin Hodge Posts: 1,246
    edited 2010-09-30 18:41
    Did he died?
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2010-09-30 19:16
    Man, I must be slipping! I can't think how many times I've seen that message and never noticed the misspelling.

    BTW, "misspelling" has two double letters: "ss" and "ll". Can anyone think of a common English word that has three -- right next to each other? (Today's activities might be a clue for some.) How about a six-letter English word with three y's -- in alternate positions?

    -Phil
  • Mike GreenMike Green Posts: 23,101
    edited 2010-09-30 19:27
    bookkeeper
  • bozobozo Posts: 70
    edited 2010-09-30 19:49
    it can't be polygyny because that has 8 letters,
    so I guess it must be syzygy?
  • Beau SchwabeBeau Schwabe Posts: 6,569
    edited 2010-09-30 20:00
    Just do a 'ror' or a 'rol' :smilewinkgrin:

    esssse - (an obsolete word meaning ashes)
  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2010-09-30 20:03
    Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) wrote: »
    ... How about a six-letter English word with three y's -- ...

    Well, it can't be syzygy because that uses only 4 letters: s y z and g.

    :D


    Now do you understand why AI is so difficult?
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2010-09-30 20:35
    Man, you guys are good! Here's one to pull on someone, but it has to be done verbally, since it loses something in writing. "Can you think of a common four-letter English word that ends in e-n-y?" Once they've gone through the entire alphabet without success, you ask, "But you don't deny that there is one, do you?" Nine times out of ten, they still won't get it.

    -Phil
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2010-09-30 20:41
    ElectricAye wrote:
    Now do you understand why AI is so difficult?
    My CS/linguistics professor had a favorite "garden path" sentence, designed to screw up English parsing programs. It began, "Cotton clothing is made from ..."

    and ended with

    "... grows in Mississippi."

    (Dang! I probably just ruined a chance to make a riddle from "Mississippi". )

    -Phil
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2010-09-30 22:23
    Can you think of a grammatically correct English sentence that contains the word "because" three times consecutively?
  • Dr_AculaDr_Acula Posts: 5,484
    edited 2010-09-30 22:48
    heater wanted me to consecutively use the word because, because because is a hard word to use in this way.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2010-09-30 22:51
    To easy hey.

    But only correct if you add some quotes around some instances of "because".
  • AleAle Posts: 2,363
    edited 2010-10-01 00:24
    You are loosing your minds !... that's the most common mistake nowadays :lol::D

    Edit: That's easy.. because it's the quote's property to be in the middle of sentences, among others: heater wanted me to consecutively use the word because, because "because" is a hard word to use in this way.

    btw: Do not forget about the clear: "its vs. it's" and "your" vs "you are" :( :cryingonthefloor: :D
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2010-10-01 00:26
    Yes, but please bare with me.
  • Clock LoopClock Loop Posts: 2,069
    edited 2010-10-01 01:14
    BREAK IT UP, break it up....


    Cmon now, this isn't a spelling bee, your all supposed to be hacking the planet.

    GET BACK TO WORK.

    This thread belongs in suggestions to parallax.
  • Toby SeckshundToby Seckshund Posts: 2,027
    edited 2010-10-01 01:41
    I'll just stick with not being able to think of a grammatically correct sentence, with anything in it.

    Comprehensive education, bless.
  • HumanoidoHumanoido Posts: 5,770
    edited 2010-10-01 02:16
    Dr_Acula wrote: »
    I wonder when a typo/misspelling becomes a word in itself? "teh" on google returns 135 million hits and even has its own web page. That is a lot of occurances/occurrences...
    It depends on how far you can bend the English language and think you can get away with it. Obviously you cannot go very far under the watchful eye of Bozo (or my English teacher). I think if you type almost anything on Google it will return something. :)
  • User NameUser Name Posts: 1,451
    edited 2010-10-01 06:48
    "I think if you type almost anything on Google it will return something."

    Definately!

    That's definitely my most hated misspelling!
  • Beau SchwabeBeau Schwabe Posts: 6,569
    edited 2010-10-01 07:30
    I tried to direct this thread to something at least computer related (reference the 'ror' or 'rol') - fail :smilewinkgrin:

    The English language is funny ... Take for example the use of 'or' , when used in the English language it almost always is used as an implied XOR.

    When you actually want to imply an OR you additionally use 'or both' in the English language.
  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2010-10-01 07:41
    If you people can't spell, than use a spell checker!
  • Toby SeckshundToby Seckshund Posts: 2,027
    edited 2010-10-01 07:54
    But then it often goes and checks it for the American spelling/grammer (even when the English options have been selected)
  • Dr_AculaDr_Acula Posts: 5,484
    edited 2010-10-01 08:12
    The English language is funny ... Take for example the use of 'or' , when used in the English language it almosy always used as an implied XOR.

    Yes, that is a very good point. Would you like to have your cake, or would you like to eat it? It is one of Billy Connolly's pet hates - When people say "Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too". (Too) right! What good is a cake if you can't eat it?

    Once, in a moment of silliness, I tried to think of examples where 'OR' was used in language the same way it is used in computer languages, ie, including A and B. I thought of a few examples but I can't for the life of me remember them now. I wonder if anyone can help me out?
  • RiJoRiRiJoRi Posts: 157
    edited 2010-10-01 08:27
    Heater. wrote: »
    Can you think of a grammatically correct English sentence that contains the word "because" three times consecutively?

    How about 6? (Not too sure of its grammatical propriety!)
    "Because, because, because, because, because,
    "Because of all the wonderful things he does!"

    "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" in the movie "The Wizard of Oz"!

    :p

    Re: "or"
    Because (!) the English language used OR as what programmers would later call "exclusive or," it was the responsibility of the designers of assembly languages (as well as logicians and mathematicians) to properly apply the word in their respective domains.

    OR should have remained exclusive ("Do you want A or B") and the inverse should have been inclusive ("1 IOR 2 is 3")

    --Rich
  • potatoheadpotatohead Posts: 10,261
    edited 2010-10-01 08:35
    One that I always notice is effect / affect.
  • Beau SchwabeBeau Schwabe Posts: 6,569
    edited 2010-10-01 08:38
    "effect / affect"

    The way I have to remember it is that affect is the cause of the effect.

    In order to show the effect of something, you must first affect it
  • Dave HeinDave Hein Posts: 6,347
    edited 2010-10-01 09:04
    Anybody know an 8-letter word that contains 5 vowels in a row?
  • Beau SchwabeBeau Schwabe Posts: 6,569
    edited 2010-10-01 09:09
    "Anybody know an 8-letter word that contains 5 vowels in a row?"

    Isn't there a Hawaiian word that means something like 'certified' that would qualify?
  • Toby SeckshundToby Seckshund Posts: 2,027
    edited 2010-10-01 09:29
    Try Welsh (vowels optional)
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2010-10-01 09:52
    A lot of English "or" usage is what, in Perl at least, is called a "lazy OR". In the sentence, "Now take that back, or you'll be sorry!" the "or" means "or else", IOW, "IF you don't take that back, THEN you'll be sorry!" So "A or B" can mean "If not(A) then B." In Perl's lazy execution B would be evaluated only if A is false, viz:

    open(TXT, "<myfile.txt") or die;

    "And" can work the same way, when it means "and then": "Give me five bucks and it's yours." In Perl,

    open(TXT, ">myfile.txt") and print TXT "Hello."

    prints to the file only if was opened successfully.

    I would love to see lazy booleans like these added to Spin. They can really help to eliminate piled-up IF clauses and make a program more readable. Perhaps they could be called "ORELSE" and "ANDTHEN". (|| and && would have been preferable, but || is taken.)

    -Phil
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