Automation

[Alister]

On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 16:53:58 +0000, Neil Cerutti wrote:

> On 2013-11-15, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at 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.





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