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I think you will find that some will take exception to your comment.
However, if every bird and every tree were the same colour, where would the
beauty in seeing lie?
I, too, found it strange to visit France and then the UK. While in France I
struggled to understand what was being said. When the plane touched down in
London, I felt a sense of relief that I would not need to struggle to
understand the language. Boy, was I wrong...but I enjoyed it.
-----Original Message-----
From: root_at_fatcity.com [mailto:root_at_fatcity.com]On Behalf Of
Brian_McQuillan_at_gelco.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 5:06 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: RE: OFF-TOPIC Loose and lose
> Is it a disk drive or a disc drive?
Hmmmmm , i suppose this one depends which flavour (note the spelling) of
English
you learned.
I still find it strange, even after living in the States for 18 months (I'm
originally from Scotland) to see the lack of the letter 'u' in certain words
like colour , flavour and so on.
Also there's the 'er' / 're' mixup as well, with 'center' instead of
'centre'
etc
Though, when I'm down on Broadway in NYC they can't seem to make up their
minds
on how to spell 'theatre',
some say 'theatre' and some say 'theater'
go figure !
Brian
"Smith, Ron L." <rlsmith_at_kmg.com> on 07/19/2000 05:18:29 PM
Please respond to ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> cc: (bcc: Brian McQuillan/GELCO)
Is it a disk drive or a disc drive?
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 3:14 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
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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>
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