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 "nintey" Wisconsin Diarrhea and tomorrow are less than 11 letters
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https://twitter.com/nevona/status/869780302813646849
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May 31, 2017 06:06
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I never understand the mentality behind doing that. "Sure pie charts are hard enough to read. But what if we make them even HARDER?" I mean if you're going to do a pointless flashy graphic then do some kind of abstract art or something. Don't try to pretend your graphic is also a meaningful graph.
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May 31, 2017 06:35
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Also I don't think the person who tweeted that actually took time to read the chart or find where it came from in the first place - it's clearly making fun of TED (and it looks like it was created by Wired).
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May 31, 2017 07:22
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Well, they are only 1% of the talk, so no one expects the visual aids to be any good.
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May 31, 2017 10:18
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Olive Garden tonight! posted:
i'm curious how else would you spell twelve or nanny
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May 31, 2017 12:04
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Olive Garden tonight! posted:
Banana? How else would you spell it? Unless you are doubling on the consonants, I truly cannot imagine any other way to spell banana.
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May 31, 2017 12:06
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That pie chart graphic is from a Wired article. I think TED takes itself too seriously to summarize its content like that. (not that they wouldn't make a bad graphic, but that they wouldn't describe their talks so reductively)
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May 31, 2017 12:10
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Bananner.
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May 31, 2017 12:23
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sweeperbravo posted:i'm curious how else would you spell twelve or nanny So, I went to check. 
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May 31, 2017 12:25
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sweeperbravo posted:i'm curious how else would you spell twelve or nanny People find a way. "would of" instead of "would've" is so common it might as well be an accepted phrasing.
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May 31, 2017 12:28
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gradenko_2000 posted:People find a way. "would of" instead of "would've" is so common it might as well be an accepted phrasing.
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May 31, 2017 12:30
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I think that paints more of a picture of what spellchecker.net thinks is supposed to be "twelve" than of its userbase's spelling.
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May 31, 2017 12:34
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gradenko_2000 posted:People find a way. "would of" instead of "would've" is so common it might as well be an accepted phrasing. "woulda" is how its said and usually spelled round these parts if the proper contraction is eschewed "would of" is puttin on airs
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May 31, 2017 12:39
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Also people who say "I could care less" which is the loving opposite thing of what they want to say. You could *not* care less, that's the whole point! 
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May 31, 2017 13:08
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Fathis Munk posted:Also people who say "I could care less" which is the loving opposite thing of what they want to say. You could *not* care less, that's the whole point!
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May 31, 2017 13:08
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This is all effecting me way to much.
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May 31, 2017 13:17
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Alwaysamore...
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May 31, 2017 13:19
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Fathis Munk posted:Also people who say "I could care less" which is the loving opposite thing of what they want to say. You could *not* care less, that's the whole point! It's idiomatic. "I could care less" was used in a sarcastic sense so pervasively that it now has that meaning even when said without a sarcastic tone. Just like "mosey" used to mean "to move quickly", but through the same process now has the opposite meaning.
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May 31, 2017 14:09
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Fathis Munk posted:Also people who say "I could care less" which is the loving opposite thing of what they want to say. You could *not* care less, that's the whole point! for all intensive purposes
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May 31, 2017 14:15
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Fathis Munk posted:This is all effecting me way to much. For all intensive purposes, Edit: gently caress
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May 31, 2017 14:16
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Oh, poo poo, the bad puns are bad! Cheese it!
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May 31, 2017 14:18
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Fathis Munk posted:Also people who say "I could care less" which is the loving opposite thing of what they want to say. You could *not* care less, that's the whole point! yeah that phrase dropped an 'as if' at some point, maybe that antecedent phrase split off during its huge 90s success and is now lonely, forgotten, and regretting leaving 'I could care less' to pursue Hollywood dreams
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May 31, 2017 14:32
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Jose posted:for all intensive purposes Riiight I knew we were missing one 
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May 31, 2017 14:32
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I remember trying to find the etymology a few years back and seeing someone suggest it was a literal translation of Yiddish sarcasm, which honestly makes sense.
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May 31, 2017 14:48
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Olive Garden tonight! posted:
Not only did they get the color wrong, Arizona and Colorado both have "tomorrow" and are right next to each other.
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May 31, 2017 15:18
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DarkHorse posted:Not only did they get the color wrong, Arizona and Colorado both have "tomorrow" and are right next to each other. 
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May 31, 2017 15:24
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Olive Garden tonight! posted:
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May 31, 2017 18:37
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Actually, the real question here is why is a made up word from a forty (fifty? More? Too lazy to fire up IMDb) year old movie the most common spelling question in two states?
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May 31, 2017 18:59
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HerStuddMuffin posted:Actually, the real question here is why is a made up word from a forty (fifty? More? Too lazy to fire up IMDb) year old movie the most common spelling question in two states? Because those states have effective public education, so the words they have trouble spelling are long hard ones. Or, they have inquisitive people who are interested in wierd poo poo like the spelling of archaic movie words. This is all opposed to those people who can't spell the state they live in. On that note I don't see 'ignorance' anywhere on that map.
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May 31, 2017 19:10
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West Virginia, a state known for its quality education.
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May 31, 2017 19:56
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HerStuddMuffin posted:West Virginia, a state known for its quality education. Coal Miner's Scholar
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May 31, 2017 20:08
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My Lovely Horse posted:I think that paints more of a picture of what spellchecker.net thinks is supposed to be "twelve" than of its userbase's spelling. Yeah I seriously doubt that even the worst spellers in the world would guess "tidelwave" as the spelling for twelve.
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May 31, 2017 23:48
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HerStuddMuffin posted:Actually, the real question here is why is a made up word from a forty (fifty? More? Too lazy to fire up IMDb) year old movie the most common spelling question in two states? Mary Poppins doesn't really seem like the type of move to come out around 1977
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Jun 1, 2017 01:00
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cinci zoo sniper posted:I wonder if "'ve" to "of" is a thing outside the U.S. as well? It is.
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Jun 1, 2017 04:45
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cinci zoo sniper posted:I wonder if "'ve" to "of" is a thing outside the U.S. as well? It is extremely common in Canada.
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Jun 1, 2017 21:05
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DarkHorse posted:Not only did they get the color wrong, Arizona and Colorado both have "tomorrow" and are right next to each other. Maybe Colorado spells it "tamarrow" and Arizona spells it "toommorrowe"?
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Jun 1, 2017 23:36
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Olive Garden tonight! posted:
Pretty sure the letter count is how many letters the wrongly spelled query had, not how many letters the correct spelling contains. At least I hope it is.
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Jun 2, 2017 13:41
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Olive Garden tonight! posted:
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Jun 2, 2017 13:51
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i really doubt that south dakota uses the "methodology" word that often
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