Another funny.... <OT>
Doug
dmcgarrett at optonline.net
Fri Nov 19 02:11:18 UTC 2010
On 11/18/2010 06:55 PM, Mark wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Ric Moore<wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If one "googles" and clicks on the links found that reflect back to
>> earlier question/answer posts on ~this list~, then that would save some
>> time, getting an immediate hit on a resolution to a problem specific to
>> Ubuntu. That's been the whole reason for the top-post ban, so one can
>> follow an earlier thread easily. That is what sets us apart from the
>> marching morons of that other OS. What is there to loose respect for?
> New verb:
>
> To loose: to cause the middle single letter of a verb to expand into
> two, thereby replacing it with an adjective that confuses the reader
> loosely to lose the meaning of the sentence for a heartbeat or two.
>
> :-)
>
> IIRC, that's one of the top ten typos in English.
>
You might as well give up. It's not a typo, it's ignorance. I
I've tried correcting this several times. Only once was it a
foreign language speaker. Him I forgave.
--doug
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