@jdegoes Now *that's* pedantic! ;)
Idea: All web forums should have a button allowing you to edit anyone's post to correct "there" to "they're"/"their" and "your" to "you're".
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@jdegoes Doesn't HTML just collapse multiple spaces anyway?! But it was a serious idea; I think it would be genuinely beneficial to the web.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@jdegoes Sneaky. You'd also need to get some sort of consensus on the "correct" spelling, so people didn't abuse it.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@jdegoes Absolutely! There must already be dictionaries of such words. -
@propensive@jdegoes actually I retract my endorsement. These errors contain information that is lost on correction.
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@propensive And loose/lose, while you're at it.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@jdegoes@propensive Strictly speaking, neither two nor one space is correct, though two is generally accepted to be *more* correct. -
@djspiewak@jdegoes@propensive This may have been true 100 years ago. - Show replies
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@jdegoes@propensive The correct spacing is a little less than 1.5 spaces, depending on kerning of the leading capital. -
@djspiewak Sounds like a viewer-setting. I'm tired of encoding layout in the data. /cc@jdegoes@propensive
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