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definately |
2009-03-03
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I was considering to defiantly refuse any admonitions to correct one of my most common spelling mistakes, but when a close friend decided to go past his self-imposed boundaries of passive-agressivenessaggressiveness to complain, I caved and replaced all occurencesoccurrences of 'definately' with 'definitely'. That is, except for the two in this post.
I will try better in the future, promise! And to my friend in particular, I'm sorry I daintified our relationship.
Why on earth would you intentionally insist on using the wrong spelling?
Comment by Simon Howard — 2009-03-03 @ 16:21
> I caved and replaced all occurences of ‘definately’ with ‘definitely’
Well done, next s/occurences/occurrences/g.
Comment by Malcolm Parsons — 2009-03-03 @ 16:51
“but when a close friend decided to go past his self-imposed boundaries of passive-agressiveness to complain…”
Haha, that’s really passive too! You guys sound like a barrel of laughs.
Comment by Zed — 2009-03-03 @ 18:18
well, you even misspelled the misspelled word in this post ;)
Comment by mike — 2009-03-03 @ 19:10
agressiveness -> aggressiveness
ocurrences -> occurrences
:)
I’m not sure daintified is a word either, but (like the misspellings)I know what you’re trying to say!
Comment by Christopher — 2009-03-03 @ 20:46
Heh… one of my co-workers recently went through our code base, fixing up a number of misspelled words that had been grating on him… responsability -> responsibility, I think was one of them..
Comment by Simon — 2009-03-03 @ 21:19
I’m with you. I say we just keep right on spelling it that way, and when others complain we’ll just say it’s a British/U.S. spelling thing.
Comment by Curtman — 2009-03-03 @ 22:12
Sorry, I have to admit it also makes this reader wince occasionally.
Comment by Richard — 2009-03-07 @ 00:34
Actually, I’m also curious what you use for typing your entries. I sort of rely on Firefox’s spell checking.
Comment by Richard — 2009-03-07 @ 00:35