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Re: eh? Powerskipper
I wonder why she chose one of the longest and most complicated usernames around?
I wonder why she chose one of the longest and most complicated usernames around?
pump it or dump it
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Phoenix of Hamble
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Re: eh? Powerskipper
Ah hell..... just re-read that, and i've gone and got all serious again.... sorry.... won't do it again....
Ah hell..... just re-read that, and i've gone and got all serious again.... sorry.... won't do it again....
Lakesailor
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Re: Ah!...Prescriptivist v Descriptivist - suggested reading...
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Did you know that globally we have generated as much data in the last 2 years, as we have in its entirety up to that point?
[/ QUOTE ] Now you're frightening me. Does this mean we know a lot more, or that we repeat what we know a lot more, or that we don't know less than we used to not know, or that.................hang on.........anybody got Rumsfeld's number?
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Did you know that globally we have generated as much data in the last 2 years, as we have in its entirety up to that point?
[/ QUOTE ] Now you're frightening me. Does this mean we know a lot more, or that we repeat what we know a lot more, or that we don't know less than we used to not know, or that.................hang on.........anybody got Rumsfeld's number?
landaftaf
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Re: eh? Powerskipper
sounds like you work for gchq
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sounds like you work for gchq
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philmarks
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My gown-wearing English master in school taught me that spelling is a matter of fashion. I like to get it right if I can, but have come to recognise (as NAS says in another post) that we are undergoing a major revolution as a race. It was well illustrated in a TV programme the other week, which identifed the key steps in the development of homo sapiens. This included walking upright, enhanced thumb articulation and the dropping of the voicebox to give us more control over sounds we make. Anyway, then came printing. The final step was the information revolution. I'm sure we'll see major shifts in spelling arising from mobile phone texting; however that may shift back as we move into better voice driven software. We are really in the middle of a revolution, having instant access to the sum of human knowledge (ok wisdom is something else!).
Anyway, we've come some way from the middle ages
Anyway, we've come some way from the middle ages
Phoenix of Hamble
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Re: Ah!...Prescriptivist v Descriptivist - suggested reading...
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Does this mean we know a lot more
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Perhaps a little......
But what it generally means is that the stuff we know is buried in a much bigger pile of crap than ever before.....
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Does this mean we know a lot more
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Perhaps a little......
But what it generally means is that the stuff we know is buried in a much bigger pile of crap than ever before.....
Its_Only_Money
Well-Known Member
Hmmm...
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Current thinking is that the revolutions will now inevitably follow an order:
Agriculture
Industrial
Technological
Cultural
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...but then it was once current thinking that the world was flat, remember stone-age man was probably gob-smacked at the technological progress he'd just made by clobbering something with a stone for the first time /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Just as the "Peoples Democratic Republic of xxxx" normally isn't anything of the sort, anything described as "inevitable" is normally about to be knocked sideways into a cocked hat by reality-based experience (ie what actually happens)!
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Current thinking is that the revolutions will now inevitably follow an order:
Agriculture
Industrial
Technological
Cultural
[/ QUOTE ]
...but then it was once current thinking that the world was flat, remember stone-age man was probably gob-smacked at the technological progress he'd just made by clobbering something with a stone for the first time /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Just as the "Peoples Democratic Republic of xxxx" normally isn't anything of the sort, anything described as "inevitable" is normally about to be knocked sideways into a cocked hat by reality-based experience (ie what actually happens)!
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TrueBlue
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Re: The whole topic
I just a very nice spelling checker called ieSpell (so it only works with Microsoft internet explorer).
Hit the spell button -on the menu bar of Ie and 'tis done. You can add your own words ad correct some of the Americanisms if you so desire.
As mentioned by others before.
To be found at http://www.iespell.com
Free
Nice
I just a very nice spelling checker called ieSpell (so it only works with Microsoft internet explorer).
Hit the spell button -on the menu bar of Ie and 'tis done. You can add your own words ad correct some of the Americanisms if you so desire.
As mentioned by others before.
To be found at http://www.iespell.com
Free
Nice
Fergus
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Re: The whole topic
I think the main point is that this board (and texting) are basically textual conversations, not a submission for the Booker Prize. I am a bit of a stickler for the quality of the written word but only for publishing - you wouldn't get the same language from a person in a pub and then the same guy doing a conference speech would you? Just my $0.02 as they say across the pond
I think the main point is that this board (and texting) are basically textual conversations, not a submission for the Booker Prize. I am a bit of a stickler for the quality of the written word but only for publishing - you wouldn't get the same language from a person in a pub and then the same guy doing a conference speech would you? Just my $0.02 as they say across the pond
Major Catastrophe
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Re: Zapruda
Dno’t feorgt, eevn if you mix up all the lertets, evedybroy can siltl raed what you ptseod. As a joarnulist, I hvae a proeassifonl pdrie in snpiellg ehveytirng propperleigh
Dno’t feorgt, eevn if you mix up all the lertets, evedybroy can siltl raed what you ptseod. As a joarnulist, I hvae a proeassifonl pdrie in snpiellg ehveytirng propperleigh
Lakesailor
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Re: The whole topic
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You can add your own words ad correct some of the Americanisms if you so desire.
[/ QUOTE ] so is this one you added?
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You can add your own words ad correct some of the Americanisms if you so desire.
[/ QUOTE ] so is this one you added?