No, I cannot spell. I occasionally suffer from delusions to the contrary.
s/Hati/Haiti/
If you write void main(), you are not writing C. You are writing in a language that looks like C. You may think you are writing in C, but any conformant compiler should be more than happy to inform you otherwise.
Anyone who uses gets() is a fool and should be LARTed into oblivion.
'Twas a joke.
Ain’t no joke about educating folk.
More advice for the educationally undernourished:
It’s “Daylight Saving Time”, not “Daylight Savings Time”
When Juliet asked “Wherefore art thou Romeo?” she was not enquiring as to the whereabouts of her lover.
It’s “to all intents and purposes”, not “to all intensive purposes”.
It’s also “If you think X, you’ve got another think coming,” despite what people may try to tell you. It started as a grammatical joke. Geddit?
Scotland is not part of England.
(One for the Brits) Speed cameras are not “a tax on motorists”. They are a means of identifying criminals. If you don’t want to pay, guess what? You can keep to the speed limit. It ain’t no rocket science, bubba.
Your bank will not send you an e-mail asking you to divulge your password and PIN.
Ok, so this is a thread pointing out common misconceptions.
From the Economist Style Guide.
I’ve never seen any usage by a major news outlet of Nasa over NASA.
You daft-headed punk-skink. [Obligitory BBQ remark]
It’s PIN, not PIN number.
It’s ATM, not ATM machine or automated ATM machine or automated teller ATM machine.
Apostrophes are not to be sprinkled in at random, or merely to signify the presence of an `s’.
Wrapping quotes around random words is not a good way to emphasize things. It simply makes you look stupid.
Nikola Tesla, for all of his genius, went crazy as a loon. All of his more interesting theories are codswallop and cannot be the basis for successful research.
Weight loss is achieved through honest effort and diet control, not Atkins or magic pills or electrified belts or other balderdash.
Saw the “origin of the word TIP” on the side of a coffee creamer carton this week. Rrgh. “Tips” is not an acronym for “To Insure Prompt Service.” It doesn’t even make sense. If you wanted to ensure prompt service, you’d tip before you were served, not when you pay the bill. Duh.
Actually, #1 appears to be both. Lee Harvey Oswald was demonstrably the only shooter but to say he wasn’t someone’s patsy is an opinion.
#10 is a whoosh, as I see World Eater already indicated.
The Prime Minister of Canada is not the head of state. Neither is the Governor General. The head of state is the Queen. The Governor General is her representative. The Prime Minister is the head of government.
If you are Canadian, French is not a foreign language, and Jésus de Montréal is not a foreign film. Independence Day, by way of contrast, is.
Spanish cuisine and Mexican cuisine are not the same. Try ordering a tortilla in a Spanish and a Mexican restaurant and you’ll see what I mean. (This was an Onion article once.)
“that” and “which” are not synonyms.
I’ve been making an honest effort at controlling my diet (through Atkins and excercise) and have lost 60 pounds. Is that balderdash? I’ll be the first to agree that it’s not for everyone, but it worked for me when other diets have failed.
(I agree 100% with all your other points, though.)
The word “Italian” is not pronounced eye-talian.
No matter what your bible-thumping pastor tells you, Unitarian Universalism is not a cult.
You don’t loose weight. You LOSE weight. Loose is an adjective.
Naming your child Kate’lynne, Maddisynne, or Jakub will not distingush them from the millions of other Caitlins, Madisons and Jacobs they will go to school with. It will, however, doom them to a lifetime of spelling their name to everyone they meet, and people will (correctly) think their parents are stupid and lack taste.
Another for the list:
.999… = 1. Cope, motherfucker.
Just wanted to point out that I made this error here when referring to Pud. Hee.
Yes, yes, yes, I get it. You hate Microsoft. You think we’re all idiots. I’m a brain-damaged moron working for a thief that has stolen every technology he’s ever produced and not one single innovation has ever come out of Microsoft, ever. Understood. :yawn:
Can you change brush sizes every once in awhile?
The planets have been orbiting just fine for millenia. Things aren’t about to go pear shaped now no matter what that nice mystic told you.
There’s a reason every perpetual machine demonstration seems to end short with some small hard-to-fix part breaking.
Being for one thing doesn’t necessarily mean you’re against something else.
Congradulations was likely once just a pun on a card for someone graduating from something, the word is congratulations and if you get it wrong again you can start school over from the beginning.
You know, I don’t hate Microsoft but I agree with Derleth regarding Bill Gates’ habit of taking technology by force.
The hackers/crackers thing is a lost cause and isn’t likely to ever change.
It will not grow hair. Even if a former race car driver says so.
There is no vast government/drug company conspiracy to suppress wonder cures promoted by websites whose “evidence” consists entirely of testimonials.
Suppressing a sneeze (or limiting the decibels of said physiologic event) will not cause your head to explode.
It’s bigger than, harder than, stronger than, etc., not bigger then, harder then, stronger then. (OMG, that almost hurt me to type. That’s one of the few grammatical errors that’s like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=228741
It’s ridiculous, not rediculous.
You are not diculous again.