On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 20:12:27 +0000, Alister wrote: > On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 16:53:58 +0000, Neil Cerutti wrote: > >> On 2013-11-15, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> >> wrote: >>> On Thu, 14 Nov 2013 20:03:44 +0000, Alister wrote: >>>> As a native of England I have to agree it is far to arrogant to >>>> expect everyone else to be able to speak good English when I can >>>> barley order a beer in any other language. (even or especially in the >>>> USA) >>> >>> Apparently you can "barley" write UK English either :-) >>> >>> No offence intended, I just thought that was an amusing error to make. >>> The word you're after is "barely", barley is a grain similar to wheat >>> or oats. Also "far too arrogant". > > Damn Spell checker, at least it chose a good pun I could almost get away > with claiming it was deliberate ;-) > > But also proves the point that if an Englishman can make simple mistakes > after nearly half a century of usage then the no native speakers should > be admired for doing as well as they do, >> >> I just learned about this kind of error yesterday while browsing the >> programming reddit! >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry's_law > > except I was not correcting/criticising a grammatical error but > defending those than make them.
and if you haven't seen it before :- Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. -- Liar: one who tells an unpleasant truth. -- Oliver Herford -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list