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|  Message 8426  |
|  Shaun Buzza to Ward Dossche  |
|  Re: Request  |
|  12 Mar 22 11:49:46  |
 TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A46 MSGID: 1:229/110 b78d2b9e REPLY: 2:292/854 1006352a TZUTC: -0500 WD> SB> Hahaha, I didn't even see the typo when I first read it! (^_^) WD> WD> The thing with typos is that most of the time you don't see them WD> yourself when rereading because you know what you wanted it to read and WD> just flah over it. WD> As a result, kind of, the first "Law of Dossche" on on-line based WD> communication WD> WD> came into being. I noticed the man whose name we're not supposed to WD> mention was WD> WD> always correcting others and in the process of doing so injected other WD> new errors because he didn't notice them ... WD> WD> "When correcting the spelling of someone's writings in an WD> internet forum, the probability of introducing a new error WD> approaches 1" WD> WD> So, did you notice Nick's typo? I assume you're talking about the missing apostrophe? You know, you really should publish these Dossche Laws. I mean, they might not be as popular as Asimov's Three Laws, but I still think it would be a fun read. McDoob SysOp, PiBBS pibbs.sytes.net --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32) * Origin: PiBBS (1:229/110) SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/0 18/200 90/1 105/81 106/201 120/340 123/131 129/330 SEEN-BY: 129/331 153/7715 218/700 226/30 227/114 229/110 200 206 307 SEEN-BY: 229/317 400 424 426 428 664 700 240/5832 266/512 282/1038 SEEN-BY: 292/854 301/1 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45 460/58 SEEN-BY: 633/280 712/848 PATH: 229/110 426 |
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