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Devious Inner circle 2120 Posts |
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On Jun 20, 2014, S2000magician wrote: This had me in hysterics...thanks for the chuckle, you serious gentleman you! |
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts |
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On Jun 23, 2014, LobowolfXXX wrote: Monstrous/monstrosity Pompous/pomposity |
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MobilityBundle Regular user Las Vegas/Boston 120 Posts |
Porous / Porosity
Along the same lines, judge / judgment (drops the e) But not Devious / Deviosity. |
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts |
Humorous/humorosity
Glamorous/glamorosity Ridiculous/ridiculosity |
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts |
Here's one I'd not seen before: gratitudity.
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Devious Inner circle 2120 Posts |
That doesn't even sound correct.
Try to use that in a sentence please? |
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts |
A gratitudity of 18% will be added to bills for all parties of 10 or more.
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Devious Inner circle 2120 Posts |
Platitude/platitudity
(No shizz?) that's a new one for me. "The platypuss' nudity was fraught with platitudity." |
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts |
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On Jun 29, 2014, Devious wrote: On the subject of spelling mistakes . . . platypuss? |
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Devious Inner circle 2120 Posts |
Ha-ha...I'm blaming my phone's spell check for this one.
Kudos for the correction. |
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Devious Inner circle 2120 Posts |
I read this in the comments section of an article on
stem cell research discussing the growing back of lost teeth from urine samples. "I would like to voluntear for this study. I have bin wading a long time for sumthing like this." Volunteer, although I can see why he is in tears after losing some teeth. |
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Dave Scribner Assistant Manager Lake Hopatcong, NJ 4849 Posts |
Ispell is a free program for spell checking. With it downloaded, you just need to type your message, click on tools at the top of the page. Ispell will open a window showing each misspelled word which you can change.
Where the magic begins
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts |
Offly.
As in, You're offly sensitive today. |
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mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts |
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On Jul 1, 2014, Dave Scribner wrote: Or just use a browser (like Firefox) that automatically checks your spelling as you type. In Firefox you can select this in options>advanced in the tools menu. |
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wulfiesmith Inner circle Beverley, UK 1339 Posts |
You should always try to improve one's vocabillary ...
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Steve Friedberg Inner circle 1402 Posts |
Bob,
Then we get into the spellchecker mistakes that are auto-generated on your smartphone. I'm guilty of those. Actually, my phone's guilty; I've just failed to proofread.
Cheers,
Steve "A trick does not fool the eyes, but fools the brain." -- John Mulholland |
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funsway Inner circle old things in new ways - new things in old ways 9982 Posts |
In Al Schneider's wonderful "The Theory and Practice of Magic Deception" he has the line, "the thundering heard invests more in what they say ..."
I wrote this off as a foible of Spellcheck, but chuckled at the inadvertent pun. I even felt somewhat excused for similar errors passed over in self-editing some of my eBooks. but later in the book the same replacement of "heard" for "herd" was made -- and I now wonder. Di the first acceptance of the phrase by the software make it seem natural the next time around? If so, it supports AL's theory about how the human mind "routers" information. Did Al do this deliberately to use the pun as re-enforcement of the concept of our visual blindness? Did he do it deliberately to test our intellectual laziness? Three options (maybe more) that all support in a different way why magic works. .... and I just realized the pun works the other way -- "the politician herd our requests"
"the more one pretends at magic, the more awe and wonder will be found in real life." Arnold Furst
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mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts |
What about the obvious explanation that Al simply misspelled the word?
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funsway Inner circle old things in new ways - new things in old ways 9982 Posts |
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On Dec 8, 2014, mastermindreader wrote: Twice? That is what Spellcheck is for isn't it? To catch spelling errors and offer alternatives. Isn't that what editors are for? It is also possible that Al doesn't know the difference between the words or assumes the reader does not. None of those options are "obvious" to me. Based on conversations I have had with Al I suspect he knows and deliberately left it in - whether the first error was intentional or not is unknown. Regardless, it is my opinion that the way our mind deals with errors and puns is similar to how we deal with magic effects. If someone actually reads my mind or just pretends to I can be equally astonished.
"the more one pretends at magic, the more awe and wonder will be found in real life." Arnold Furst
eBooks at https://www.lybrary.com/ken-muller-m-579928.html questions at ken@eversway.com |
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mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts |
Occam's Razor- the simplest explanation is the most likely. Also note that Schneider's book was released in 1998. It may be a mistake to assume that he used spell check or even a computer when he wrote it.
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