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I bought a house a few miles from Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego and signed several pieces of paper relating to noise and the potential for unex
by 01100011 6y ago
I bought a house a few miles from Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego and signed several pieces of paper relating to noise and the potential for unexploded ordinance. I think CA has pretty good laws on the books for disclosing stuff like that.
I could see people overlooking it, even if it was shoved in their faces. Buying a home is an overly emotional process where people are influenced by inconsequential factors("I love the color", etc) but overlook serious flaws.
- gowld 6y agoWell placed typo. California's laws are indeed unexploded ordinance.
- reificator 6y agoThe post makes sense to me with the supposed typo, are you sure it wasn't intended?
- dmurray 6y agohttps://www.grammarbook.com/homonyms/ordinance-ordnance.asp https://www.grammarbook.com/homonyms/ordinance-ordnance.asp
- reificator 6y agoHomonyms are not typos though. I'm familiar with both definitions of the word.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> Homonyms are not typos though. Homonyms that are close in spelling can be typographical errors, and, because they aren't as visually-wrong as non-words, are particularly likely to escape notice when they are. They can also be a different class of errors. > I'm familiar with both definitions of the word. You mean “the definitions of both words”, surely?
- reificator 6y agoI'm sorry, I do not post on Hacker News to have reddit arguments. > You mean “the definitions of both words”, surely? This is not how reasonable people act.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoI don't find dragonwriter to be unreasonable. Instead, I find your expectations to be rather surprising. You expect to not be called out on misusing language? On a board with a large number of programmers, to whom the details of language use really matter? You can think that this instance doesn't deserve the nitpicking. But getting all huffy and accusing the other side of being unreasonable seems to me to be rather over-sensitive.
- Jarwain 6y agoOrdinance doesn't typically explode, except in a metaphorical sense; ordinance does. Based on the context, the latter word is most likely what was intended.
- makomk 6y agoThis was made slightly more confusing by you making the same typo; presumably you meant to say that ordnance explodes.