Return to Unfiction unforum
 a.r.g.b.b 
FAQ FAQ   Search Search 
 
Welcome!
New users, PLEASE read these forum guidelines. New posters, SEARCH before posting and read these rules before posting your killer new campaign. New players may also wish to peruse the ARG Player Tutorial.

All users must abide by the Terms of Service.
Website Restoration Project
This archiving project is a collaboration between Unfiction and Sean Stacey (SpaceBass), Brian Enigma (BrianEnigma), and Laura E. Hall (lehall) with
the Center for Immersive Arts.
Announcements
This is a static snapshot of the
Unfiction forums, as of
July 23, 2017.
This site is intended as an archive to chronicle the history of Alternate Reality Games.
 
The time now is Sun Nov 17, 2024 10:22 am
All times are UTC - 4 (DST in action)
View posts in this forum since last visit
View unanswered posts in this forum
Calendar
 Forum index » Archive » Archive: MetaCortechs » MetaCortechs: General/Updates
[TRIVIA] Mispellings
View previous topicView next topic
Page 1 of 1 [15 Posts]  
Author Message
Chinghis
Veteran


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.
_________________
It's the smell....

PostPosted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 3:24 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Ehsan
Entrenched

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..

PostPosted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 3:30 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
yanka
Fickle


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...
_________________
Annushka has already bought the sunflower oil, and has not only bought it, but has already spilled it.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 1:24 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Chinghis
Veteran


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?
_________________
It's the smell....

PostPosted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 2:59 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Guest
Guest


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

PostPosted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 6:27 pm
 Back to top 
Chinghis
Veteran


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.
_________________
It's the smell....

PostPosted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 6:56 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Guest
Guest


you can't accomadate multiple things it becomes accomadates

PostPosted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 9:12 pm
 Back to top 
Marl64
Unfettered


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 Very Happy
_________________
Marl
(There is no spoon, oh wait, there it is)


PostPosted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 11:50 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
yanka
Fickle


Joined: 06 Oct 2003
Posts: 1214
Location: undesirable

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.
_________________
Annushka has already bought the sunflower oil, and has not only bought it, but has already spilled it.

PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 3:52 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
hyper
Guest


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. Smile

PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 7:25 pm
 Back to top 
Chinghis
Veteran


Joined: 02 Oct 2003
Posts: 135
Location: Somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert

Nope, all of those (except for Beth's email) remain uncorrected. And, the Cascade Vortex research is #73, not #75 (my mistake).
_________________
It's the smell....

PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 8:15 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
yanka
Fickle


Joined: 06 Oct 2003
Posts: 1214
Location: undesirable

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.

PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 8:57 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
hourglass
Guest


corporate is missspelled on the wongmo writing site

just thought i'd add my two cents
hope it helkps

PostPosted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 12:19 pm
 Back to top 
Grabthar
Greenhorn

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!

PostPosted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 4:21 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
yanka
Fickle


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.

PostPosted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 8:16 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Display posts from previous:   Sort by:   
Page 1 of 1 [15 Posts]  
View previous topicView next topic
 Forum index » Archive » Archive: MetaCortechs » MetaCortechs: General/Updates
Jump to:  

You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
You cannot attach files in this forum
You can download files in this forum
You cannot post calendar events in this forum



Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group