Quote
Actually heard at an online meeting this morning:
"It's as tentatively final as it can be at this point."
Linguistic Obsession
"Want to see smoke come out of my ears, just show me a misplaced apostrophe or an improperly used transitive verb." I didn't write that, but I'll be nice and not edit the wonky use of commas by my generous host.
- Hm
- First Time
- Quote
- Do You Speak American?
- On Spelling Correction and the Collective Knowledge of Web Users
- Making fun of song lyrics
- Bank typo
- Possessives of words ending in 's'
- Dilbert part III
- Dilbert part II
Friday, April 15, 2005
Thursday, April 14, 2005
Do You Speak American?
"The Big Book Of Beastly Mispronunciations: The Complete Opinionated Guide For The Careful Speaker by Charles Harrington Elster offers suggestions on how to pronounce thousands of words and expressions. Here are 100 examples!"
Tuesday, April 05, 2005
On Spelling Correction and the Collective Knowledge of Web Users
Gary Price over at Search Engine Watch has found an interesting report titled "Spelling correction as an iterative process that exploits the collective knowledge of web users". It's deep but if you're interested in just how Google and the like "suggest" alternative spellings, this report is for you.
Monday, April 04, 2005
Making fun of song lyrics
I quote song lyrics all the time. The bad grammar on the part of Joan Osborne as pointed out by Alien vs. Predator just never occured to me.