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"petrabytes"...really? The most upvoted comment forgot how to spell (or doesn't know) to petabyte.
by Demcox 10y ago
"petrabytes"...really?
The most upvoted comment forgot how to spell (or doesn't know) to petabyte.
- welly 10y agoOr it was a typo or they were thinking of something else at the time or they were typing their response on their mobile or any other number of reasons other than "forgot how to spell" or "doesn't know how to spell". I swear criticising someone's spelling is the last bastion in an argument/debate/discussion. When you haven't got anything else, attack their spelling. I'm not saying that you're getting into an argument or debate but come on, you know what the guy meant.
- Demcox 10y agoI'm sorry that you feel this way, but being a CS student, ones know the horrors such simple spelling errors can unravel in codes, machine architecture and programming to name a few. Correct spelling and grammar is what makes your OS function, the doses of medicine prescribed correct and it can sometimes be the difference between life and death. I view it as the foundation for any thing important that you want to communicate.
- dkersten 10y agoOr they were typing on a phone which "autocorrected" it. Happens to me all the time.
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- nicky0 10y agoI feel it necessary to point out the erroneous extra "to" in your sentence.
- cyberferret 10y agoI posit that the offender may have rather large thumbs. Because if you look very very carefully at the standard QWERTY keyboard, you will notice that the letter 't' and the letter 'r' are in fact located precisely adjacent to each other. In fact, from the sentence structure, I know that he (definitely male, aged in mid thirties, right handed, wears a hand knitted cardigan, keeps a cucumber sandwich in his briefcase) was typing this on an iPhone 4S (still running iOS 8) on the 5:30pm train from Campbeltown and reached the middle of the word just as the train entered the Chuddingsworth tunnel. There is a slight offset in the tracks there that causes the train carriages to lurch to the left a little, thus causing his thumb to slide across just that little bit after he hit the 't' in 'petabyte'. If you need any more info, please do not hesitate to contact me: 222b@holm.es
- grkvlt 10y agoWould the train not need to lurch to the right for the thumb to slide to the left? Since, based on the sentence structure, it is obvious that the writer always sits facing the direction of travel in a train... ;)