Re: Problems with incremental send/receive

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Felix Blanke posted on Fri, 10 Jan 2014 14:15:07 +0100 as excerpted:

> Hi Want,

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> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Wang Shilong

OT, but...

In language circles that's commonly known as a Cupertino, named for the 
fact that some older spellcheckers didn't know the word cooperation, and 
would suggest replacing it with Cupertino (the city), instead of the dash-
compounded co-operation.

So an inappropriate (and often amusing) spellcheck correction is known as 
a Cupertino, with the phenomenon known as the Cupertino effect.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Cupertino_effect

(I personally would have named it an "allot", the frequent but 
inappropriate suggestion to replace the informal "alot", where the 
suggestion /should/ be the more acceptable "a lot", since that's the case 
where I first became aware of the phenomenon, and I see "allot" used in 
the "alot" context frequently enough that I know I'm definitely not the 
only one to have the problem.)

(See also Mondegreen, Snowclone, and Crashblossom (this one too new to 
appear in wiktionary apparently, but google has it), other christened 
phenomena of common modern language mistakes.)

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