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If nano would have been the default, I'm not sure I would of learned vi. Just a thought.

dukoid 6y ago
If I wouldn't have been in the army, I am not sure I would have learned how to attach stabilizers to a nuclear missile. Just a thought.
- lambdaba 6y ago
  I'm just making a point that many happy Vim users can relate to. To me it was pure serendipity. Nano on the other hand wouldn't have led me anywhere. Apparently that is worthy of downvoting to some.
richrichardsson 6y ago
> I would of How on earth do you make this mistake when you literally typed "would have" in the same sentence! "Would've" if you really want to contract it like in speech (same number of keystrokes; grammatically correct). Just a thought. :-D
- enriquto 6y ago
  >> I would of I'm not a native english speaker and this error is extremely surprising to me. While I can read english correctly, if I find this error my language parser just panics and it destroys the whole sentence, like if it was missing a comma between "would" and "of" and the rest of the sentence is grammatically incorrect. For example: "He would, of all things, prefer to do X than Y". How on earth so many people make this error on writing? Don't they even sound different? The "h" in "have" is completely silent?
  - yomly 6y ago
    Would have -> would've Sounds like "would of"
    - lambdaba 6y ago
      Thanks for the charitable explanation. I sometimes spell phonetically for no reason.
  - ajuc 6y ago
    It's one of these errors that native speakers are more likely to make than even the beginners with English as a second language :)
    - enriquto 6y ago
      There's quite a few more examples of that. Like "their/they're", "your/you're" "its/it's"... I can barely speak english but I would never make these errors; how can you confuse a pronoun with a verb?
      - lambdaba 6y ago
        You don't really, my theory is sometimes the auditory part takes over mid-sentence, whereas when I'm in my usual visual mode the errors stand out immediately.
        enriquto 6y ago
        Probably... in my case since I never speak nor listen to spoken english it is mostly a written-only language to me.
    - lambdaba 6y ago
      That's flattering as I'm not a native speaker :)
- lambdaba 6y ago
  As another user suggested, I spelt it phonetically for no reason...
  - richrichardsson 6y ago
    I was being pretty pendantic, to be fair it's a very common mistake amongst native speakers. edit: just seen you're not a native speaker, which is quite interesting, as I normally only see natives making this error.
    - lambdaba 6y ago
      Thanks - I've been swimming in US culture and English since I was a kid (grew up in an eastern block country, nothing was translated). I've read more in English than any other language by far, probably heard more too, which is where I think this kind of error comes from.
ClumsyPilot 6y ago
If I was not born in Russia, i would have never learned how to fight off drunk 14 year olds while grocery shopping
- lambdaba 6y ago
  In this analogy Unix is Russia so still a valuable skill to have.
ajuc 6y ago
And you wouldn't need to :)

If I wouldn't have been in the army, I am not sure I would have learned how to attach stabilizers to a nuclear missile. Just a thought.

lambdaba 6y ago
I'm just making a point that many happy Vim users can relate to. To me it was pure serendipity. Nano on the other hand wouldn't have led me anywhere. Apparently that is worthy of downvoting to some.

richrichardsson 6y ago

> I would of How on earth do you make this mistake when you literally typed "would have" in the same sentence! "Would've" if you really want to contract it like in speech (same number of keystrokes; grammatically correct). Just a thought. :-D

enriquto 6y ago
>> I would of I'm not a native english speaker and this error is extremely surprising to me. While I can read english correctly, if I find this error my language parser just panics and it destroys the whole sentence, like if it was missing a comma between "would" and "of" and the rest of the sentence is grammatically incorrect. For example: "He would, of all things, prefer to do X than Y". How on earth so many people make this error on writing? Don't they even sound different? The "h" in "have" is completely silent?
- yomly 6y ago
  Would have -> would've Sounds like "would of"
  - lambdaba 6y ago
    Thanks for the charitable explanation. I sometimes spell phonetically for no reason.
- ajuc 6y ago
  It's one of these errors that native speakers are more likely to make than even the beginners with English as a second language :)
  - enriquto 6y ago
    There's quite a few more examples of that. Like "their/they're", "your/you're" "its/it's"... I can barely speak english but I would never make these errors; how can you confuse a pronoun with a verb?
    - lambdaba 6y ago
      You don't really, my theory is sometimes the auditory part takes over mid-sentence, whereas when I'm in my usual visual mode the errors stand out immediately.
      - enriquto 6y ago
        Probably... in my case since I never speak nor listen to spoken english it is mostly a written-only language to me.
  - lambdaba 6y ago
    That's flattering as I'm not a native speaker :)
lambdaba 6y ago
As another user suggested, I spelt it phonetically for no reason...
- richrichardsson 6y ago
  I was being pretty pendantic, to be fair it's a very common mistake amongst native speakers. edit: just seen you're not a native speaker, which is quite interesting, as I normally only see natives making this error.
  - lambdaba 6y ago
    Thanks - I've been swimming in US culture and English since I was a kid (grew up in an eastern block country, nothing was translated). I've read more in English than any other language by far, probably heard more too, which is where I think this kind of error comes from.

ClumsyPilot 6y ago

If I was not born in Russia, i would have never learned how to fight off drunk 14 year olds while grocery shopping

lambdaba 6y ago
In this analogy Unix is Russia so still a valuable skill to have.

ajuc 6y ago

And you wouldn't need to :)