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Chinghis
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Joined: 02 Oct 2003 Posts: 135 Location: Somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert
[TRIVIA] Mispellings I doubt that this is anything, but I noticed a couple more mispellings this evening. This is in addition to those I mentioned in another thread (now locked; see below).
- No logical explaination - all of the Little-boxes. net archives that are unexplained have "explanation" misspelled, as above. "Logical explanation," however, is spelled correctly.
- "They are in the process of surveying they area for a similar occurrences in the wild." - from Archive Document #60, grammatical error, in addition to "they" instead of "the"
Things we found before:
- the 'e' in please - Email from Beth's mom in Metadex
- Luxury misspelled as 'luxery' - theaquapolis.com
- Aquapolis mispelled as "Aquaplis" - theaquapolis.com
- Unfinished sentence in Cascade Vortex research (#75) - little-boxes.net:
"Physics is the wildcard here, increasing in strength as the subject gets closer t"
I'd be fairly certain these are all innocent typos, but someone was asking about it.
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Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 3:24 am
Ehsan
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Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 992
It really even makes sense if they were intentional typos.. Who doesn't make spelling mistakes in e-mail.. I would have been suprised if everything was actually perfect.. so no reason to believe there's a puzzle here..
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 3:30 am
yanka
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Joined: 06 Oct 2003 Posts: 1214 Location: undesirable
I can see typos in e-mail. But on a site of a "$1.3 billion" company? If the corporate site are trying to look like corporate sites, then they'd fix unintentional typos, I think...
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Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 1:24 pm
Chinghis
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Joined: 02 Oct 2003 Posts: 135 Location: Somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert
MODS - Move me! Ack, didn't realize that Yanka made a post similar to this in the Puzzles section. This would probably be better there.... Could you move it, please?
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Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 2:59 pm
Guest
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http://www.cascadevortex.com/visit.html
on the top left of the page it reads
ccommodate buses, trailers, and RVs.
missing the a and the s
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 6:27 pm
Chinghis
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Joined: 02 Oct 2003 Posts: 135 Location: Somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert
Guest wrote:
http://www.cascadevortex.com/visit.html
on the top left of the page it reads
ccommodate buses, trailers, and RVs.
missing the a and the s
Which 's'? In busses? It's only with rampant misuse of "busses" in recent years that it has come to mean the plural of 'bus.' 'Busses' when spelled with a double 's', means kisses - to buss someone is to kiss them.
(I was just going to refer you to dictionary.com, but they do have busses as an alternate spelling for the plural of bus. /sigh)
Actually, that's just a piece of text that was messed up and forgotten when they were doing the page. Look at the source,; I'm fairly sure that it's just a snippet that someone forgot to delete.
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Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 6:56 pm
Guest
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you can't accomadate multiple things it becomes accomadates
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 9:12 pm
Marl64
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Joined: 04 Oct 2003 Posts: 456 Location: Prisoner of Zion
Anonymous wrote:
you can't accomadate multiple things it becomes accomadates
Really? That clear cut?
"My garage can accommodate three cars, two bikes and a pushchair but currently accommodates only one rusty bath"
You can't speak propper like wot I can
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(There is no spoon, oh wait, there it is)
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 11:50 pm
yanka
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Chinghis, you should see if any of these have been corrected (for example, the missing "e" in please was corrected sometime yesterday (I think)); if there are any left that are mentioned here, than we can have more reason to think they are intentional.
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Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 3:52 pm
hyper
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underscore hosting Email is mispelled twice on the main underscore hosting page. On the left side in the list of "extras", they spell it E-maill. Twice. Don't know if that is important or not, I just thought it was funny.
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 7:25 pm
Chinghis
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Nope, all of those (except for Beth's email) remain uncorrected. And, the Cascade Vortex research is #73, not #75 (my mistake).
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Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 8:15 pm
yanka
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Chinghis wrote:
Nope, all of those (except for Beth's email) remain uncorrected. And, the Cascade Vortex research is #73, not #75 (my mistake).
Well, in that case, I'm inclined to think they are clues... Or the PMs just didn't see this (=this thread, lol) yet.
_________________Annushka has already bought the sunflower oil, and has not only bought it, but has already spilled it.
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 8:57 pm
hourglass
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corporate is missspelled on the wongmo writing site
just thought i'd add my two cents
hope it helkps
Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 12:19 pm
Grabthar
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Joined: 10 Oct 2003 Posts: 7 Location: Berlin, Germany
It seems like "corporate" is now spelled correctly.
Therefore I think that this misspelling was unintentional BUT the other's may be intentional!
Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 4:21 pm
yanka
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Joined: 06 Oct 2003 Posts: 1214 Location: undesirable
I'm just gonna try this as a test: in http://www.paranormaljournal.org/vol2_4.html#1 ; Article titled "What's in a word" - "Pythagoreans" is misspelled: it reads "Pathagoreans"
_________________Annushka has already bought the sunflower oil, and has not only bought it, but has already spilled it.
Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 8:16 pm
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