{"id":85,"date":"2004-07-07T10:15:05","date_gmt":"2004-07-07T14:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/07\/07\/someone-has-a-good-head-on-their-shoulders"},"modified":"2004-12-09T00:39:31","modified_gmt":"2004-12-08T22:39:31","slug":"someone-has-a-good-head-on-their-shoulders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2004\/07\/07\/someone-has-a-good-head-on-their-shoulders","title":{"rendered":"Someone has a good head on their shoulders"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just read a wonderful article<\/a> by David Campbell (hopefully that’s a permanent link, and an accessible one) on careless spelling and the mistakes the spell-checker programs may allow. (Found it through a comment on Language Log<\/a>, what else)<\/p>\n

I’ve mentioned<\/a> my allergy of “their vs. they’re vs. there” and that article contained some of my other horrors: seperate, definate, relevent… I also grimace when I see “than” instead of “then” or vice versa.
\nI have to admit that I didn’t see anything wrong with “accomodation” but that’s because I don’t think I’ve ever used that word myself. (In case you don’t see it either, it should have 2 m’s.)<\/p>\n

[Finnish alert]<\/strong> There’s a “personal” experience in this area too. Or actually it was my sister’s. The spell-checker didn’t recognise the word viisisakarainen<\/i> (with five points (I don’t know what the things on a star are called)) even though it should understand compound words; one of its alternatives was viisipakarainen<\/i> (with five buttocks). Clever.<\/p>\n

What was I supposed to write about… Oh yeah, there was a gross documentary on parasites (focus on worms, it’s a 3-part series) on tv last night. I watched it (of course!) and I had goosebumps and suddenly started itching all over. It was BBC<\/abbr>‘s “Body Snatchers”. I can’t remember (and the commentator was dubbed) the English terms of the species so I can’t talk about it much, but one man grew a tapeworm type of creature inside him — for research purposes. It grew to almost 2 meters. And one woman had been stung by a mosquito that carried the eggs of a fly and a big (about an inch) maggot started growing under her scalp. It looked like a big bump on her head and there was a biggish hole in her skin through which the maggot breathed. Ewww… I’m shivering again.
\nOh and one man had caught a leech from drinking from a brook and it had attached itself in his nostril. \":eek:\"<\/p>\n

Brrr… is it cold in here?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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