Word of the Day
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| Definition: |
Wedged or packed in together. |
| Synonyms: |
wedged
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Quote of the Day
There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
Sophocles
(496 BC-406 BC) |
Words are one of the many ways we use to communicate
to each other, in our code and in daily life.
As programmers, techies, and as human beings,
we definitely depend on words when are unable
to communicate directly: through our code and
our documentation and reports, as well as instant messaging,
sms, email, blogs, web pages, ... and even ...
hand-written letters.
And why is a page about words in the technology section??
Because words are a technology — a tool we humans use.
in our code
In speaking we use certain conventions, or habits,
so that people can understand us.
In code we have to be even more careful because
computers are much more stupid than people,
and need things to be very clear.
In addition, if we format our code nicely
and add comments, it makes it much more useful
for those humans who must read it after us —
even for ourselves a few weeks later!
in daily life, tech writing, web content, ...
After the Deadline - English spell, grammar, and style check
Checks spelling, misused words, style, and grammar using artificial intelligence
and natural language processing.
Use as a website, FireFox add-on, WordPress plug-in.
Here's a nice article about it, with video - by Matt of WordPress:
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/atd-wpcom/
And here's a bonus link for you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commonly_misused_English_words
Verrrry useful!!
watch out! British and English words
India uses mostly British English ... but more and more American usage is creeping in.
Some words are different for the same thing.
And there are differences in meaning of words — and some words mean totally
the opposite in UK and US English!
With the web we are all much closer together ... it's probably best not to
use words that may have confusing meaning — especially if it may have
completely opposite meaning.
Here's two sites that tell us about the differences:
over-complexitizing-lengthifying words
There seems to be a trend in the past few years to make
words longer — and harder to say!
Is this a good thing?
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strangle has become
strangulate
"Strangulation" is the noun derived from the
verb "strangle".
Now it seems a verb "strangulate" has been
reverse-derived from that noun!
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candidacy, a perfectly good word
with a long history of use, has grown to
candidature for mysterious and
unknown reasons.
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speeding has grown to
over speeding
"speeding" already means "going too fast".
You can't be any faster than "too fast"!
... Oh wait ... This is India. Everybody is already "speeding" as their normal driving.
Ok, you can use "over-speeding" here :)
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