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• Rants

• "Boolean or" or "boolean or"?

  I was writing the text for some new error messages for the expression tree library the other day. When I ran them past our user education specialists (that is, the people who will be writing the documentation to explain the error messages), one of them Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 1:52 PM by Eric Lippert | 19 Comments Filed under: Non-computer, English Usage

• If so smart Yoda is, why does not words the right order in his sentences put?

  Part three of my series on the impact of high-dimensional geometry on search algorithms will have to wait at least until after the Victoria Day weekend -- I'm crazy busy getting wedding invitations out, working on last-minute book edits and, oh yeah, Read More... Posted Thursday, May 19, 2005 11:55 AM by Eric Lippert | 15 Comments Filed under: Non-computer, English Usage

• Ologiology

  No technology today -- but, hey, where does that word "technology" come from, anyway? I'm on this politics/technology/etc. mailing list. A recent poster noted that Donald Rumsfeld, in an interview will Bill O'Reilly on the subject of, of all things, the Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 08, 2004 3:18 PM by Eric Lippert | 13 Comments Filed under: Non-computer, English Usage

• A Grammatical Aside

  I just wrote in a comment to my previous entry, "The ability to rate one's knowledge of a subject accurately is strongly correlated with one's knowledge." Wait a minute. "One's"??? Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 02, 2003 6:48 PM by Eric Lippert | 28 Comments Filed under: Rants, Non-computer, English Usage