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#78180 08/14/2002 4:55 PM
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has anyone else noticed that our "political thread" is taking a looong time to load?! it's around 250 Kbytes, not to mention that it has more than the requiisite... site... site 99 replies.


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I've noticed. I haven't been reading it but.


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<I haven't been reading it but.>

I ain't no inglish major, but is there something missing ere?






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It's Aussie-speak, Chemeng. (not that I am one but).


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S'right, Chemeng - I was there when the finer points of its usage were explained to us. We don't know if we're doing it right, as it was explained by a Zildian, but. Hi, CapK


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our "political thread" is taking a looong time to load?! ... and even longer to read
(which is why I've goven up bothering to!)


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I've goven up bothering to!

You might even say you forwent reading it.


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The inability of my finger to distinguish between "i" and "o" keys makes me look like a bithering idiot!




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are there any statistics covering the most frequent typing errors? I realize that many get corrected without ever being read, but just wondering. I know that I mess up I and O more than anything else.
this may open up discussion of Dvorak keyboards and the like, but, hey, that could be fun.



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Oh, Rhuby, you mistake me. Far from calling you an odoit, I had assumed you were using goven jocularly.


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I had assumed you were using goven jocularly

No - I forwent jocularity this time.


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statistics covering the most frequent typing errors

And are there any spell checkers that take them into account? I most frequently reverse letters, particularly when they are in oppostie hands. Another is getting pgg regoister or, what I call fumble fingers, hitting two adjacent keys simultaneously.


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I am much the same, but in my case it is alloyed with a firm belief that I can't get any thing wrong. This makes proof reading un-necessary.


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No - I forwent jocularity this time.


should that be No - I forwent jocularity this tome?


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No - I forwent jocularity this time.


that would be a forst...



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I forwent jocularity this time.

I suppose you can be forgoven.


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this tome

As usual, OT, one word from you is worth a volume.



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