On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 16:53:58 +0000, Neil Cerutti wrote: > On 2013-11-15, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> > wrote: >> On Thu, 14 Nov 2013 20:03:44 +0000, Alister wrote: >>> As a native of England I have to agree it is far to arrogant to expect >>> everyone else to be able to speak good English when I can barley order >>> a beer in any other language. (even or especially in the USA) >> >> Apparently you can "barley" write UK English either :-) >> >> No offence intended, I just thought that was an amusing error to make. >> The word you're after is "barely", barley is a grain similar to wheat >> or oats. Also "far too arrogant".
Damn Spell checker, at least it chose a good pun I could almost get away with claiming it was deliberate ;-) But also proves the point that if an Englishman can make simple mistakes after nearly half a century of usage then the no native speakers should be admired for doing as well as they do, > > I just learned about this kind of error yesterday while browsing the > programming reddit! > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry's_law except I was not correcting/criticising a grammatical error but defending those than make them. -- Lawrence Radiation Laboratory keeps all its data in an old gray trunk. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
