I’ve see a hand full of references to Guadere’s Law since I started reading this board, and I’m wondering what that edict is.
I tried to do a search, but the search failed because “law” is less than the required 4 characters. (I put qoutes around “Guadere’s Law” but the search feature still wouldn’t process my request with the word “Law” in it.) If I search on “Guadere’s” alone, I get a buch of threads where users are mentioning Guadere’s posts, but do not explain/define the actual edict.
Based on this quote
found in this thread, I’m assuming that it has to do with making a stupid mistake while pointing out or correcting another user’s stupid mistake. Is this assumption anywhere near correct?
I am neither Gaudere nor Gaudere, but the answer to your question is in a principle coined by Gaudere, the Administrator here, back before she became a Moderator, that any rant focusing on improper spelling, grammar, or other misuse of the English language will itself contain an inadvertent error of the sort condemned by the poster. Like Murphy’s Law, it holds true an inordinate amount of the time.
So it looks as if I was nearly an exemplar of the edict in that I misspelled Gaudere’s name. However, I wasn’t actually bitching about anyone else’s spelling, so I’m off the hook. Plus, in my defense, I got the spelling from the referenced thread. So I am completely and udderly innocent. Not my fault! Don’t blame me!
And, as one of life’s sweet ironies, I just realized I misspelled “utterly” :eek: (what can I say, I just finished a glass of milk). But I decided that instead of correcting it, I would point out my error, ala this thread.
And just to doubly prove the point, in attempting to gently tweak you about having misspelled Gaudere as Guadere (which as I now see was accurately copying mblackwell’s misspelling), I of course misspelled the misspelling by spelling it accurately both times! Gaudere rules even in reverse!!!
(I meant to say self-correct; when you post something because yopu spot one of your own mistakes, you are even more likely to make another in the post when you try to correct it).
Personally, whenever I’m pointing out an error in spelling or grammar, I make it a point to deliberately include one known error, just to stay on the safe side. At least that way, I know where it is.
(and before anyone starts looking, this post is not pointing out an error.)
