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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: OFF-TOPIC Loose and lose
Is it a disk drive or a disc drive?
-----Original Message-----
From: Rachel Carmichael [mailto:carmichr_at_hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 3:14 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: Re: OFF-TOPIC Loose and lose
I notice... all the time... all the misspellings. I have a proofreader's eye
I think, my eye naturally goes to the mistakes.
I just try to bite my lip and not say anything
>From: Jared Still <jkstill_at_bcbso.com>
>Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
>Subject: Re: OFF-TOPIC Loose and lose
>Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 09:46:01 -0800
>
>
>Well, I thought I was was just being pedantic.
>
>I notice but have kept my mouth shut ( so to speak ).
>
>Thanks for saying something. :)
>
>Jared
>
>On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Gait, Christopher wrote:
>
> > > "If you use RAID5 remember that you loose the disk capacity of
> > > one disk for the RAID configuration algorithim storage ie:
> > > four 10 gig drives equates to 30 gig storage RAID5. If you
> > > use RAID5 you can loose one disk and still be able to recover
> > > the data that you have storred in the configuration and the
> > > disks are prefferably "hot swaps"..."
> >
> > I've noticed that on the Internet as a whole, and particularly among
> > engineers of various flavors, very few people spell the word lose with
>one
> > 'o'. Okay, this is a really trivial, old technical editor (like me)
>thing,
> > but I'm starting to wonder if other people notice this. In the above
> > authoritative and informative piece of technical text the word 'lose' is
> > consistently misspelled as 'loose'. The way I see it, if disk capacity
>is
> > loosed, it must be loosed somewhere, i.e. the disks must be turned loose
>to
> > spin off across the computer room floor, spitting out bits as they go
>and
> > preferably producing rodeo sound effects. If one loses a disk on the
>other
> > hand that is a serious and troubling event.
> >
> > Maybe someone can come up with an association between certain
>characteristic
> > spelling errors and personality trends.
> >
> > Chris Gait
> > --
> > Author: Gait, Christopher
> > INET: cgait_at_condor.nrl.navy.mil
> >
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>
>Jared Still
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