A small typographical error
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Topic: A small typographical error
Posted By: Shakespeare
Subject: A small typographical error
Date Posted: August 25 2007 at 21:58
| When uploading a new avatar, and the selected file exceeds the maximum size, a message appears saying "This file is to large", when it should say "This file is too large". Just a very minor error that I couldn't help but point out. |
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: August 25 2007 at 22:11
^ Well spotted, Shakey. 
Confusing "to" and "too" is a VERY common English error.
I think the most common one (few here seem able to get it right) is 'its" vs "it's."
It seems as if nine times out of ten, they are used incorrectly here (and elsewhere).
 I see such errors in expensive advertising quite often. It makes the company look bad (to those of us who notice it) -- as if they have no competent spellers on staff, or as if they just couldn't be bothered.
We should strive to get such things right on PA -- as best we can!  ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: August 25 2007 at 22:14
| Something I see all the time on internet posts is confusion between the word "lose" and "loose". I can't understand why this error is so ubiquitous. |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: August 25 2007 at 22:20
^ The goose got loose, and chased the moose past the caboose.
 ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: August 25 2007 at 22:24
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Since I started visting PA I always thought that a topic about English should be interesting... there are many foreigners here and certainly many doubts appear. For me, the most surprising is the state of the current speaking/writing, with things like "me thinks" or "dunno". The majoritiy of non-English speakers here learnt the language at school and this kind of learning is normally very formal.
------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: August 25 2007 at 22:29
^ Me thinks is one word  I've used it many a time in my plays  .Another common one, particularly in Schizoid_Man77's posts, is the confusion between their and they're. He only says they're - never anything else, and I've slowly started teasing him about it. |
Posted By: andu
Date Posted: August 25 2007 at 22:34
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Yeah, that's my favirote grammar user around
------------- "PA's own GI Joe!" 
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: August 25 2007 at 22:41
"Me thinks" is not so much an error, as it is simply an old-fashioned (archaic) way to say "I think." (Though no longer normally in use, it was common in the 1700s - 1800s.)Sometimes I use it, just because I enjoy old-fashioned speech patterns -- having been exposed to them so frequently in the course of my English education.
"Dunno" is of course an informal corruption of "don't know," just as "wanna" and "gonna" are of "want to" and "going to," respectively. Sometimes we English speakers use such slang deliberately, to appear less formal by thus representing the sound of everyday, conversational English, or even just to save time (an issue for struggling hunt and peck typists like myself).  ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Atkingani wrote:Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: August 25 2007 at 22:51
Queen Elizabeth is married to Prince Phillip. Their heir is Prince Charles. Where does he live? Not here, but over there, in England. (They're all royalty, but we're not.) ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: August 25 2007 at 22:51
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Ah, you're a pecker, are you Peter? You never did those dreaded All-the-Right-Type! Exercises in school as a child... ...So repetitive.... |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: August 25 2007 at 23:02
Ah... the English subjunctive! 
Since in Portuguese we have 6 different tenses for the subjunctive and we use them in the common language, it's hard when we try to translate them to English.
Well, "If I was you" still annoys me... I thought it should be "If I were you".  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: August 25 2007 at 23:03
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^ A large part of the problem is that few people read much anymore, and even fewer bother to write, except in truncated internet/email "webspeak."
Thus, more and more people are starting to think that "u" is an actual word, and that "a lot" is one word.
(It's not, of course -- no more than "afew," "abunch" or "adog" are words.)
 But enough of this! It's too much like what I do all week for a living! ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: August 25 2007 at 23:14
No -- I grew up in the 60s. Only girls were taught to type back then (and such programs did not even exist, in any case).
 Not that I'd call myself a "pecker" -- that has another connotation, where I come from....Hint: it's not one of these:
 ...but it also shares a name with one of these:
 !------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: August 26 2007 at 21:20
| Well, I come from where you come, Peter. Where chesterfield means sofa, and where a beavertail is something you eat.... |
Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: October 09 2007 at 16:56
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We should definitely have a thread called "Tales from Typographical Oceans" where everyone posts typos...
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Posted By: T.Rox
Date Posted: October 11 2007 at 06:51
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A real typographical error...
May I suggest we amend ammend to be amend in Click here to ammend your search ------------- "Without prog, life would be a mistake." ...with apologies to Friedrich Nietzsche |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: October 11 2007 at 07:10
Amen.  |