George A2Y
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Y cudnt they rite weir?
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ajlelectronics
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This very forum seems to have a weird spelling bot. If I type a word wrong it will often correct it to another wrong spelling. Or sometimes a correctly spelt word will be auto changed to an obviously incorrect spelling.
Not sure if it's the forum, or my ipad, or Safari actually, but it definitly varies on different
sites.
eg. This suggested correction.
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I suspect it is your autocorrect that has learned your previous typo's and assumed it is what you meant.
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Fb market place search is horrible. A third party scraper would be good.
Over 20 years ago I was stuck, bored, in front of a sun terminal all day. I desired one of those first gen mp3 players (the rio ones... remember them?) but I generally only buy stuff used.
I wrote a script that would run off a cron job on the sun machine to search a load of those sites (loot, Friday ad etc) and parse down the results to a single view interface.
20 years later, Facebook thinks I could be interested in an American style fridge freezer when I search for car parts.
Welcome to the future. Considerably less shiny than hoped for.
Over 20 years ago I was stuck, bored, in front of a sun terminal all day. I desired one of those first gen mp3 players (the rio ones... remember them?) but I generally only buy stuff used.
I wrote a script that would run off a cron job on the sun machine to search a load of those sites (loot, Friday ad etc) and parse down the results to a single view interface.
20 years later, Facebook thinks I could be interested in an American style fridge freezer when I search for car parts.
Welcome to the future. Considerably less shiny than hoped for.
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The sites that automatically search for you use the target sites' API, they don't just run a search pretending to be a human. Facebook has an API too (Though it is a closed Beta), so there's no reason someone couldn't build a typo searcher for FB Marketplace (Unless Facebook don't want you to, then they won't give you access to the beta).
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That's a user thing, nothing to do with the forum software.This very forum seems to have a weird spelling bot. If I type a word wrong it will often correct it to another wrong spelling. Or sometimes a correctly spelt word will be auto changed to an obviously incorrect spelling.
Not sure if it's the forum, or my ipad, or Safari actually, but it definitly varies on different
sites.
eg. This suggested correction.
View attachment 396704
As AJ said, that will happen if you've previously spelled it incorrectly.
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Last Sunday a guy at the bike cafe told me about his amazing Israeli made woven plastic stretch seat cover, Fit and Fly, or something, so I googled it, and it looks okay, never ordered one though.
Next day, and every single time I have opened it since, Farcebook has some stretch seat cover ad pop up second post. Every time! Not even the same company, but somehow Farcebook bots have decided that I really, really need one of those covers.
I may well buy one, their plot has succeeded.
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Wasn't he a star of music hall stage in the 30s? "Where's Me Washboard" and all that?
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Arthur Atkinson's sidekick . Where's me washboard.
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Sorry!! Meant.First off, I didn't get any A's for English so I'm not criticising anyone here...
Browsing fb marketplace using the nearest first feature I find a lot of items with spelling mistakes in the title.
Last little nugget is a "whole press"
It appears to be a press for punching holes.
Possibly the seller just ment he is selling all of it but the description says the vice is not included
It's been relisted with a reduced price several times...
There are several search engines for ebay where you type in the correct words and they then search for items that are not spelt quite right.
Ebays own search also matches up via the item description text which doesn't seem to happen on market place.
Anyone know of a similar search engine for marketplace?
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The intrusions that hack me off are the incessant ads. that appear AFTER I've bought something on the net. Why do they 'assume ' I want another whatever? Not so smart after all.Last Sunday a guy at the bike cafe told me about his amazing Israeli made woven plastic stretch seat cover, Fit and Fly, or something, so I googled it, and it looks okay, never ordered one though.
Next day, and every single time I have opened it since, Farcebook has some stretch seat cover ad pop up second post. Every time! Not even the same company, but somehow Farcebook bots have decided that I really, really need one of those covers.
I may well buy one, their plot has succeeded.
As for Fb they seem to have redefined the meaning of the word "Free".
Seadog
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I am glad this was brought up as I find spelling mistakes really iritating and hard work trying to understand the context of what the sender is actually saying. I know there are some people who suffer with english just as there are some people who suffer with maths/arithmetic and so I just accept this but I can still be irritated without blaming the sender if they are the ones who suffer from this ailment.
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You will rarely identify those people by their use of language though. In my experience, they are the ones who take great care to write coherently. The worst ones are those who were brought up through the Bliar "ejumakashun, ejumakashun, ejumakashun" years, where they were taught that standards don't matter and expression was the only thing that mattered.
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ajlelectronics
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^^^^^^^^^^ One of the unwritten rules of the Internet, however there is a difference between typo's and "don't care".
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I've mentioned this in the past, how 'text speak' is ruining the English language, and I was reminded that all languages evolve, always have done, and this is just more evolution...
So in a decade or two we'll all be grunting like cavemen, so evolved/devolved will our once noble mother tongue have become, communications will be done mainly by gadget, our vocal cords will calcify and fall into disuse....
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I've mentioned this in the past, how 'text speak' is ruining the English language, and I was reminded that all languages evolve, always have done, and this is just more evolution...
So in a decade or two we'll all be grunting like cavemen, so evolved/devolved will our once noble mother tongue have become, communications will be done mainly by gadget, our vocal cords will calcify and fall into disuse....
Languages evolve over time, not so sure we would understand a word our 16/17 century ancestors said.
| Word/Phrase | Meaning (using C21 terms) |
| Affect | Pretend falsely |
| Affront | Insult |
| Affray | Attack, disturbance, riot |
| Ague | Fever – particularly malaria in C17 |
| All of a dudder | Shivering and shaking |
| Anon | At once |
| Apothecary | Druggist, Chemist, Pharmacist |
| Ay | Yes |
| Baffle | Foils the plans of |
| Bedlam | Madhouse |
| Betimes | Early, soon |
| Blackguard | A body of criminals or vagrants ( became Blagard – criminal) |
| Board | Daily provision (food and drink) |
| Boards | Table (made of boards) |
| Bolts | Shackles, fetters |
| Bravery | Fine clothes |
| Buss | Kiss |
| Buttery | Store room for wine, beer, casks, bottles, pewter etc |
| Butler | The servant in charge of the buttery, person who serves wine, beer etc |
| Buxom | Plump and good looking |
| Betwixt | Between |
| Caitiff | Wretch, villain |
| Calf Lolly | Idle simpleton |
| Calling | Name, station in life, profession |
| Carrion | Decaying flesh |
| Censured | Pass sentence on |
| Certain | Constant, reliable |
| Character | Handwriting |
| Clay brained | Speaks for itself |
| Coif | Linen cap for women |
| Cousin (or Coz) | Term used of all close kindred |
| Crave | Want, seek, beg |
| Crotchets | Whims, fancies |
| Cry you mercy | Beg your pardon |
| Cunning | Skill, knowledge, smart, devious |
| Cur(s) | Dog(s) |
| Dalliance | Flirting |
| Dandy Pratt | Insignificant Person |
| Deflaterhose | A type of men’s breeches (early C17) |
| Dislike | Express an aversion to |
| Divers | Many |
| Divines | Clergymen |
| Dizzy | Foolish |
| Dog Apes | Baboons |
| Dog- bolt | A wretch |
| Doom | Sentence, judgement |
| Falling band | Separate collar |
| Foppish Lout | Overdressed, ostentatious person |
| Forms | Reflections, ceremonies |
| Forsooth | In truth, indeed |
| Forswear | Deny, repudiate |
| Forsworn | Perjured |
| Foul | Ugly |
| Frieze | A thick material for coats |
| Fry | To a child ‘young fry’ |
| Furnish’d | Dressed, equipped |
| Gentle | Well born, honourable, courteous |
| Gentleman | Owner of land or property earning £50 or more per year |
| Gentlewoman | Most usually the wife or widow of a Gentleman |
| Gillyflower | Fragrant flower – usually carnation, stock or wallflower, |
| Go your ways | Go away |
| God buy you | God be with you – (now Goodbye) |
| Good faith | In truth |
| Gown | A long coat worn over all clothing – often open at the front |
| Gruel | A cheap food made by boiling oats with water or milk |
| Handkercher | Handkerchief |
| Holds | Cells |
| Hose | Breeches (from Tudor – doublet and hose) – becoming stockings |
| House of Profession | Brothel |
| Hoyden | A rude or ill-bred woman or girl |
| Husband | Housekeeper (hence also as a verb – to look after) |
| Husbandry | Cultivation of the soil |
| Hussy | Immoral, wanton (usually preceded by little – or light – ) |
| Huswife | Housewife |
| Idle | Useless and foolish (e.g. ‘in idle price’) |
| Imposthume | A swelling containing pus or an abcess |
| Jerkin | Waistcoat |
| League | About 3 miles |
| Lisp | After a foreign accent |
| Lunch | A meal of a hunk of bread and cheese (North English – Tudor) |
| Luncheon | A drink or snack in mid-morning |
| Lusty | Vigorous |
| Manchett | A loaf of best quality bread |
| Mardle | Gossip |
| Mark | The sum of 13s 4d |
| Mark | Pay serious attention to, take note of |
| Marry | To be sure of, indeed |
| Mauther | Girl (still used in Norfolk) |
| Mawkish | Derived from ‘Mawk’ an old word for maggot – nauseating, sick making, having no appetite |
| Mercer | Textile merchant |
| Mercy | Beg forgiveness |
| Name | Reputation |
| Napkin | Handkerchief |
| Naughty | Wicked |
| Neckerchief | A separate cloth around the neck and shoulders |
| Nice | (affectedly) fastidious, refined |
| Nuncheon | A drink or snack in the afternoon |
| Paint | Apply cosmetics |
| Palsie | Shaking fit, tremor, paralysis |
| Pantler | The servant in charge of the pantry and bread |
| Physic | Medicine, cure |
| Pick purse | Pickpocket |
| Place | Office, station, position of authority, safe home |
| Ply | To urge, work upon, persuade |
| Posset | Hot drink of milk curdled with wine, beer or brandy |
| Pox | To curse you (literally to cause you to get the pox (syphilis)) |
| Practices | Plots, deceit, conspiracy |
| Prithee | I beg you |
| Puny | Inferior, petty, underdeveloped |
| Raw | Inexperienced, uncooked, uncultivated, sore or sick |
| Receipt | Recipe |
| Russet | A type of woollen cloth (also the colour) |
| Sack | Fortified wine |
| Searsed | Sifted |
| Shifter | Con man |
| Sirrah | Form of address used to inferiors or expressing contempt |
| Stuff | Dress material |
| Tapster | Person serving drink |
| Tarry | Wait |
| Tawdry | Cheap and pretentious finery |
| Thankee | Thank you |
| Troth | In truth, indeed (by my troth – truly) |
| Yeoman | Owner/tenant of a small property/land earning >£6 per year |
| Villain | Low born rustic, wicked scoundrel, lower servant |
| Wainscot | Wooden panelling |
| Whiles | While |
| Winsom | Attractive, handsome |
| Worm’s nest | Decayed fresh, a corpse |
| Worsted | A type of wool cloth |
| Wrangling | Arguing |
| Zounds | An oath |
