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Yerboogieman
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
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 Posted - Aug 19 2009 : 02:33:44 AM
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| Sure has a lot of errors. I think i got them all. I skipped over the errors in Random Thoughts section. |
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Aaron Cake
Administrator
Canada
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Posted - Aug 19 2009 : 10:17:19 AM
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As I believe I have mentioned on YouTube, most of these errors are not spelling errors but "word substitution" errors. As people don't read every single word, these are harder to catch in proof-reading especially since I have already read the content so many times and know in my head what I meant to say. As I alone am responsible for the content on this site (minus the forum) I don't exactly have a team of proof readers.
However, "a lot of errors" is a bit of an overstatement. I believe that you forwarded me approximately 10 errors via your messages on YouTube. Considering that this site has well over 1000 pages of text, 10 errors is only a 1% error rate. |
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Yerboogieman
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
577 Posts |
Posted - Aug 20 2009 : 01:35:25 AM
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Hmm, no kidding, but also there id the Random Thoughts section in that "over 1000 pages of text". I would also like to take that job as the "team of proof readers". Trust me, i have time. Useless, probably could be doing something better, time.
I am surprised you remember me. |
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Yerboogieman
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
577 Posts |
Posted - Aug 20 2009 : 01:51:43 AM
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Then again there is the pages
Why buy an RX7
Guestbook (which is an error all in itself)
http://www.aaroncake.net/spuds/howto.htm (Just in the first part.)
and all the pages of comments, features, and the errors in the messages you send me. I will finish the spud-guns some other time because frankly, the subject is pretty boring, I have more fun installing a stereo in one of my cars.
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Aaron Cake
Administrator
Canada
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Posted - Aug 20 2009 : 09:24:51 AM
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I miscalculated previously. Assuming 1000 pages, and 10 wrong words out of 1000 pages, that is a LOT less then a 1% error. If there is conservatively 250 words per page then that is a 0.004% error rate.
I would suspect it is quite boring spell checking my website. I would also never presume to spell check any user generated content. No matter how atrocious people's writing may be, editing their work is not very nice and really is a poor use of time.
"Features" (this section is now depreciated and will no longer be updated nor linked to on the main page) contains stuff that was a precursor to "Random Thoughts". Some of it was my useless ramblings, some was copied from other sources. "Random Thoughts" only exists because I needed a quick way to fire off useless stuff that would not fit anywhere else in the site. Some thoughts are worth the time it takes to read them, some are utterly pointless. |
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Yerboogieman
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
577 Posts |
Posted - Aug 20 2009 : 9:24:15 PM
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| There is no reasoning here. You have more errors than you are calculating for. Assuming there is 22 errors per page and 346 words that is a 20.7% error rate. |
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Yerboogieman
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
577 Posts |
Posted - Aug 20 2009 : 9:27:05 PM
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| Well, 20.7% chance of an error. Then what you said. |
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Yerboogieman
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
577 Posts |
Posted - Aug 20 2009 : 9:29:31 PM
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pebe
Nobel Prize Winner
United Kingdom
1078 Posts |
Posted - Aug 21 2009 : 02:13:23 AM
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Originally posted by Yerboogieman
There is no reasoning here. You have more errors than you are calculating for. Assuming there is 22 errors per page and 346 words that is a 20.7% error rate.
For someone whose grammar is less than perfect, you really should not be nit-picking.
And 22 errors in 346 words is ,rounded up, 6.4% - not 20.7% |
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Yerboogieman
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
577 Posts |
Posted - Aug 21 2009 : 2:30:55 PM
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Originally posted by pebe
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Originally posted by Yerboogieman
There is no reasoning here. You have more errors than you are calculating for. Assuming there is 22 errors per page and 346 words that is a 20.7% error rate.
For someone whose grammar is less than perfect, you really should not be nit-picking.
And 22 errors in 346 words is ,rounded up, 6.4% - not 20.7%
Ah yes. Thanks. How is my grammar less than perfect? Also, you have a useless comma between is and rounded; along with a space. |
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pebe
Nobel Prize Winner
United Kingdom
1078 Posts |
Posted - Aug 21 2009 : 2:55:38 PM
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Assuming there is 22 errors per page
'22 errors' is plural. 'Is' is a singular verb, so it should read 'there are 22 errors'.
And in an earlier posting
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Then again there is the pages
My error? Yes, a typo - the space was in the wrong position. It slipped in by accident - like your semicolon! |
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boron
Mad Scientist
Canada
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Posted - Aug 21 2009 : 2:56:59 PM
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Are we really going to start arguing about the location and usage of punctuation? lol...
If we are, then the commas are ok where they are but the spaces are in the wrong place.  |
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Yerboogieman
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
577 Posts |
Posted - Aug 22 2009 : 04:38:02 AM
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Originally posted by pebe
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Assuming there is 22 errors per page
'22 errors' is plural. 'Is' is a singular verb, so it should read 'there are 22 errors'.
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Then again there is the pages
My error? Yes, a typo - the space was in the wrong position. It slipped in by accident - like your semicolon!
Like my semicolon, which i disagree is a typo, your dashes, seem to be typos, or useless and out of place. |
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Yerboogieman
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
577 Posts |
Posted - Aug 22 2009 : 04:39:01 AM
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Originally posted by boron
Are we really going to start arguing about the location and usage of punctuation? lol...
If we are, then the commas are ok where they are but the spaces are in the wrong place.
You mean "okay". |
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pebe
Nobel Prize Winner
United Kingdom
1078 Posts |
Posted - Aug 22 2009 : 05:49:09 AM
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Like my semicolon, which i disagree is a typo, your dashes, seem to be typos, or useless and out of place.
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Then you have a pretty poor command of the English language.
Your semicolon should have been a comma.
Your 'i' should be in upper case.
A dash with a space on either side is in common usage and to most people is a perfectly acceptable alternative to a semicolon, or an alternative to brackets if used twice in the middle of a sentence.
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Aaron Cake
Administrator
Canada
6717 Posts |
Posted - Aug 22 2009 : 11:15:10 AM
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I don't think we need to become such annoying pendants that we dissect each other's posts for errors. However I do think that an error rate of 22 errors per page on this site is rather excessive. There are pages with several errors, and there are pages with no errors. A flat rate of 100 errors is probably accurate. When I see error, I correct them. However as I mentioned before, I may not always see them due to how a person reads their own work.
As much as possible I try to always use proper spelling, sentence structure and grammar. As I am just human (mostly) sometimes I make errors that squeak through. Additionally much of the writing others do is so piss poor that it has been effecting my own writing. For example, I am now unsure about the use of "it's" vs. "its" simply because almost no one uses them correctly. The difference is that while many people don't even bother making an effort to communicate properly, I do go through considerable effort to do so. Just once an a while, an error gets through. |
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