[MERGE] Fixing Typos in documentation

Ben Finney bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au
Thu Feb 19 21:14:15 GMT 2009


Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> writes:

> John Arbash Meinel пишет:
> >> I wonder what caused so many doubled-up words?
> >
> > Possibly just the human behavior of ignoring them. When reading a
> > sentence we can easily not even notice doubled words, especially
> > if they wrap across a line.
> 
> As a non-English person I'm always puzzled by this doubled words.
> I've thought it's a kind of Australian slang.

As an en_AU native, I can assure you I'm also quite puzzled by them.

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