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wot? not @accalia's bad spellaring?
missed opportunity there you had.
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I figured I was already in the (hedgehog-equivalent-of) the doghouse because I broked @shadowmod's tables; didn't want to push my luck
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@accalia spellaring is the opposite of constant
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the spelling itself, yes, but it is consistently bad spelling.
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good shot....
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It was the invention of the printing press which really did it in for þ. The first presses to arrive in England came from Germany, where þ isn't a letter, so English printers decided that y looked similar enough to be a viable replacement (th would've taken twice the effort you guise), and thus printed English lost a character...
They didn't want to try and use ß instead?
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this is elvish
If I remember correctly, that's just elvish script. The actual language is from mordor.
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This conversation was about scripts. And alphabets.
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Are we supposed to stay on topic now?
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:shrug.exe:
six of one half of the other. i was talking about the script more than the text.
want me to find a different example that uses the same script but is actually elvish?
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nah, I think it got the point across.
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nah, I think it got the point across.
Ahahahahahhahaha....
the Point!
Cause your avatar is a sword.....
hahahahaha
wipes away tears
I haven't laughed like that in a long time.
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Hm, OK. Glad I gave you your laugh of the day. :puzzled.gif:
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same here
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I've always seen uppercase C, but the meaning was clear anyway, at least to me.
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Technically, but in practice it depends what you're now going to do with it - we now have a system of equations in x, not unlikely there was something else wanted to be done with them. I'm a little rusty but depending what it is it may be fine to add the infernal constant at the end, which is quite acceptable by convention.
(FWIW I was always taught that the convention is upper case letters for a constant of integration, but it's only a convention either way, perfectly correct to use any symbol you damned well please, so long as it's not used elsewhere in the equation.)
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The # pound character was over the 3 clear back in typewriter days. If we needed a £ pound character we were taught to overstrike lowercase f and capital L. In those days, the shift of 2 was the " double-quote character and @ was over the 8.
You sound like someone who is old enough to remember typing (on a typewriter) ! by overstriking . and '.
Before anyone asks I learned that from my grandmother, who also used 1 as lowercase l, or the other way 'round, I forget which.
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the other way 'round
The letter L existed on a typewriter keyboard (in both upper- and lowercase). No number 1 was needed since the lowercase l served just fine, with context distinguishing which was intended.
I took typing in 7th? 8th? 9th? — I don't remember — grade. Manual typewriters; only the best typists got to use electrics, and I definitely was not one of them. (I once scored -2 WPM on a speed test — yes, negative.) @accalia has nothing on me when it comes to typos, except that I usually notice and fix them before submitting.
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You think @accalia is bad at typos? You should see some of my posts before I edit them.
It may be true that lysdexics have more fun but damn does it do a number on our typing skills.
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Do you still have any of your old buggy whips?
My old whips are all operating according to spec, thank you very much!
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(I once scored -2 WPM on a speed test — yes, negative.)
You've deleted two words?
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Maybe it was a Roman typewriter: ⅰ, Ⅰ
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Are they sure?
English professor: ..while a double negative produces a positive expression, there are no double positives that produce a negative expression
Student: Yeah, right.
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You've deleted two words?
stdWords = text.length() / 5;
rawWpm = stdWords / elapsedTime;
adjWpm = rawWpm - errors.count();
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Why does that image look suspiciously like an airfield diagram to me?
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You've deleted two words?
No, you measure WPM by counting...how many words you typed in one minute, and then subtracting 1 for each mistake you made.
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No, you measure WPM by counting...how many words you typed in one minute, and then subtracting 1 for each mistake you made.
I was wondering how -2 WPM made sense