05-07-2006, 08:50 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-07-2006, 09:12 AM by GenericKen.)
Neat.
Reading.
Gratz on your dinging your M.S. :)
EDIT> They let you reference Wikipedia in the UK? I thought at first maybe it was just a touch here and there to supplement common knowledge into your references, but there's actually quite a few references to it.
I'm a little suprized that you didn't posit the possibility that many spelling errors are a result of the revisable nature of message boards. I've noticed in my own posts and many others that tense, grammar, and the proper prefixing/suffixing of a word will often change several times while playing with the phrasing of a post, and that it's quite easy to lose track, even during the initial composition.
Then again, if I were limited to 150 pages for my masters' thesis, I wouldn't touch internet grammar with a 10 foot pole either. =O)
Reading.
Gratz on your dinging your M.S. :)
EDIT> They let you reference Wikipedia in the UK? I thought at first maybe it was just a touch here and there to supplement common knowledge into your references, but there's actually quite a few references to it.
I'm a little suprized that you didn't posit the possibility that many spelling errors are a result of the revisable nature of message boards. I've noticed in my own posts and many others that tense, grammar, and the proper prefixing/suffixing of a word will often change several times while playing with the phrasing of a post, and that it's quite easy to lose track, even during the initial composition.
Then again, if I were limited to 150 pages for my masters' thesis, I wouldn't touch internet grammar with a 10 foot pole either. =O)
Great truths are worth repeating:
"It is better to live in the corner of a roof
Than in a house shared with a contentious woman." -Proverbs 21:9
"It is better to live in the corner of a roof
Than in a house shared with a contentious woman." -Proverbs 25:24
"It is better to live in the corner of a roof
Than in a house shared with a contentious woman." -Proverbs 21:9
"It is better to live in the corner of a roof
Than in a house shared with a contentious woman." -Proverbs 25:24