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I learnt English in Bengaluru (earlier called Bangalore) in India.
For the first 15 years of my life, I used to pronounce "often" as is given in http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/often[^]. In my sixteenth year, I met an English teacher who was Oxford-educated, and used to pronounce the 't' in "often". He was educated in Oxford during the 1950's. After that, I too started pronouncing the 't' in "often", but others used to correct me and say that 't' is silent in "often".
Analogous to witch / wich.
Not to justify, but just for info. No offence meant.
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None taken!
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Avijnata wrote: but others used to correct me and say that 't' is silent in "often".
Only if the speaker is particularly lazy!
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Yeah. I know and I don't blame anyone for it. I just found that mistake/typo funny as it has a very different meaning
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Agree.
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OriginalGriff wrote: 4) Do you know what punctuation is, and how to use it? I see the abomination of the Oxford comma(,and) has found its way onto your grammar
[edit - fixed spelling mistake]
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified 5-Dec-14 10:46am.
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I like the Oxford comma - it's excellent with lists, collections and groups, and compilations.
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It's also useful when you want to invite "the strippers, Hitler and Stalin" to your party.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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But not when you wish to eat shoots and leaves...
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Don't forget when your Uncle Jack needs assistance at the end of a horse ride.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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A comma won't save you from that.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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OK - does he use C, C++, or C#?
Good - wait till he leaves his computer, then edit one of his source files.
Delete one or two semicolons, and replace them with this: ;
It's a Greek question mark, U+037E that just looks identical to a semicolon.
Now watch the compilations errors.
If you remember which lines, you can also fix it for him - for a price...
You can copy and paste it from here, or look in Charmap - there is no ALT or ALTGR sequence as far as I can find.
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Does a C++ editor accept Unicode? I assumed it was only ASCII.
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VS does.
Think about it: it accepts any character in a string (for globalisation support) so it accepts any character, anywhere...
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Yeah, I guess it has to.
Removing \ form multiline defines is also hard to spot, the compiler doesn't necessarily object even.
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You evilest evil to ever evil... well thanks, now I would know how to defend
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Removing a couple of brackets could also be quite annoying.
Or rewrite the entire code in VB while he's away from his keyboard...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous ----- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944 ----- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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Yes, but with removed brackets it's obvious from a quick glance.
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Just remove the semicolons after the closing brackets of structs. Better if done in a header file.
Hell awakens in each and any compilation unit.
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If they are coding in Javascript, they may not notice this for a few months...
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and get shot? Seriously mean. Funny for some.
Easy to find and fix though.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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Your cats didn't do this to you, did they?
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OriginalGriff wrote: If you remember which lines, you can also fix it for him - for a price... Just remember who started it when he keys your car or sends photos to your wife from last years office Christmas party.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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