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Rare treat to spot a typo on a Google page: > It provides hands-on workers and professionals with glaceable, voice-activated assistance... https://www.google.

Rare treat to spot a typo on a Google page: > It provides hands-on workers and professionals with glaceable, voice-activated assistance... https://www.google.com/glass/tech-specs/ https://www.google.com/glass/tech-specs/ Perhaps V3 will come with a built-in spelling and grammar checker. They could call them SPAGgles.

adrianmonk 7y ago
Typos abound these days. My personal guess is, since people communicate in written form constantly now, they don't see it is as "special" anymore, and they just don't think it's very important to proofread. But if you're looking for minor errors, there are three in this blog post alone: 1. In the first sentence, there is a stray non-breaking space before "manufacturing". Along with the regular space character next to it, the effect is to put extra whitespace between the words words. 2. "We’ve also added USB-C port" should have an "a" before "USB-C". 3a. The first sentence of the last paragraph ends with "work better, smarter and faster". So they've elected not to use an Oxford comma, which would be an OK choice except for the fact that in the first sentence of the paragraph before that they do have an Oxford comma. (They have "... Sutter Health, and H.B. Fuller.") So it's not consistent. 3b. Oh, they're also inconsistent with Oxford commas within a single sentence! The last sentence of the first paragraph is this: "Workers can use Glass to access checklists, view instructions or send inspection photos or videos, and our enterprise customers have reported faster production times, improved quality, and reduced costs after using Glass." No Oxford comma before "or send inspection" but there is one before "and reduced costs".
- adrianmonk 7y ago
  And of course I wrote "words words" above, providing yet more evidence in support of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law .

adrianmonk 7y ago

Typos abound these days. My personal guess is, since people communicate in written form constantly now, they don't see it is as "special" anymore, and they just don't think it's very important to proofread. But if you're looking for minor errors, there are three in this blog post alone: 1. In the first sentence, there is a stray non-breaking space before "manufacturing". Along with the regular space character next to it, the effect is to put extra whitespace between the words words. 2. "We’ve also added USB-C port" should have an "a" before "USB-C". 3a. The first sentence of the last paragraph ends with "work better, smarter and faster". So they've elected not to use an Oxford comma, which would be an OK choice except for the fact that in the first sentence of the paragraph before that they do have an Oxford comma. (They have "... Sutter Health, and H.B. Fuller.") So it's not consistent. 3b. Oh, they're also inconsistent with Oxford commas within a single sentence! The last sentence of the first paragraph is this: "Workers can use Glass to access checklists, view instructions or send inspection photos or videos, and our enterprise customers have reported faster production times, improved quality, and reduced costs after using Glass." No Oxford comma before "or send inspection" but there is one before "and reduced costs".

adrianmonk 7y ago
And of course I wrote "words words" above, providing yet more evidence in support of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law .