Archive for Errors
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Typo generator
Researchers at U. Penn have created software that generates typos. Give it a phrase, and it will generate a list of variants on that phrase, featuring things like missing letters,...
arsy-tansy
Not long ago, I read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (in a printed copy, on paper—the relevance of which I'll explain later), and was struck by this...
old win
Just encountered an amusing typo in a news article: “old win in new bottles.” I suppose the opposite of that is old fail in new bottles....
The arguable fact
I have some sympathy for this kind of construction, 'cause I've done it too: There's no way to two-step around the fact that season 11 of Dancing with the Stars...
Literally
Several years ago, I took a sideswipe at “literally” in an entry about something else. John S and Shmuel both gently pointed out that I was wrong to be fussy...
impithany
Best recent line from a spam comment: For that brief moment of today I had a little bit of sanity and than I had to hit the pavement to go...
Exasperated problems
This just in from the AP, by way of AOL: [...] spacewalking repairs may be needed sometime after Discovery leaves this weekend. The problem is exasperated by the fact that...
Inadvertent smiley
Just saw this in a blog entry at alternet: One of the lawyers handling the case for the defendants (that is, defending the constitutionality of Prop. sent us a note...