What Are You Doing Right Now

@dafyre said:

Was cleaning out some old bookmarks when I found this:

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/946997-the-greatest-user-ticket-ever?page=1

Funny!

If only all of our tickets were like that.

scottalanmiller

Do tons of people really think that virtualize is visualize or is this just an autocorrect thing? That it only happens in certain groups of people and not, for example, here makes me think that it is not an autocorrect problem.

wirestyle22

@scottalanmiller said:

Do tons of people really think that virtualize is visualize or is this just an autocorrect thing? That it only happens in certain groups of people and not, for example, here makes me think that it is not an autocorrect problem.

It's just people. Just like laser vs. lazer

dafyre

@scottalanmiller said:

Do tons of people really think that virtualize is visualize or is this just an autocorrect thing? That it only happens in certain groups of people and not, for example, here makes me think that it is not an autocorrect problem.

Could it be these people are simply in a hurry to post, or perhaps english is not their first language?

wirestyle22

@dafyre said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Do tons of people really think that virtualize is visualize or is this just an autocorrect thing? That it only happens in certain groups of people and not, for example, here makes me think that it is not an autocorrect problem.

Could it be these people are simply in a hurry to post, or perhaps english is not their first language?

it could

scottalanmiller

@wirestyle22 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Do tons of people really think that virtualize is visualize or is this just an autocorrect thing? That it only happens in certain groups of people and not, for example, here makes me think that it is not an autocorrect problem.

It's just people. Just like laser vs. lazer

Who the heck writes lazer, outside of tag, of course?

wirestyle22

@scottalanmiller said:

@wirestyle22 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Do tons of people really think that virtualize is visualize or is this just an autocorrect thing? That it only happens in certain groups of people and not, for example, here makes me think that it is not an autocorrect problem.

It's just people. Just like laser vs. lazer

Who the heck writes lazer, outside of tag, of course?

Mutants

dafyre

@scottalanmiller said:

@wirestyle22 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Do tons of people really think that virtualize is visualize or is this just an autocorrect thing? That it only happens in certain groups of people and not, for example, here makes me think that it is not an autocorrect problem.

It's just people. Just like laser vs. lazer

Who the heck writes lazer, outside of tag, of course?

Peepole hoo learnd frum fonicks.

JaredBusch

@scottalanmiller said:

Do tons of people really think that virtualize is visualize or is this just an autocorrect thing? That it only happens in certain groups of people and not, for example, here makes me think that it is not an autocorrect problem.

It is most certainly a spellcheck or autocorrect issue. My iPhone no longer tries to fix it because I have corrected it enough times but when I first got my iPhone 6 it was a hell of a problem because I chose not to restore my prior iPhone 5 and instead I started clean.

JaredBusch

@dafyre said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@wirestyle22 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Do tons of people really think that virtualize is visualize or is this just an autocorrect thing? That it only happens in certain groups of people and not, for example, here makes me think that it is not an autocorrect problem.

It's just people. Just like laser vs. lazer

Who the heck writes lazer, outside of tag, of course?

Peepole hoo learnd frum fonicks.

Well, I seriously think that spelling should be redone phonetically. I seriously hate examples like knife and laser.

Of course rule still will need determined for long or short sounds and stuff. I mean otherwise how would you know that nif is the long i sound?

scottalanmiller

@JaredBusch knife is ridiculous, of course. Laser is actually an acronym, though. It's the pronunciation that is wrong, if anything.

scottalanmiller

I find that British spellings, while often crazy, are a little more straightforward because they have more phonetic spelling rules than American English has.

Except for clerk, why does that get pronounced clark?

scottalanmiller

@JaredBusch said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Do tons of people really think that virtualize is visualize or is this just an autocorrect thing? That it only happens in certain groups of people and not, for example, here makes me think that it is not an autocorrect problem.

It is most certainly a spellcheck or autocorrect issue. My iPhone no longer tries to fix it because I have corrected it enough times but when I first got my iPhone 6 it was a hell of a problem because I chose not to restore my prior iPhone 5 and instead I started clean.

That is my guess, but it seems so oddly localized that I am suspicious.

JaredBusch

@scottalanmiller said:

@JaredBusch knife is ridiculous, of course. Laser is actually an acronym, though. It's the pronunciation that is wrong, if anything.

Right, but now that it has been accepted as a word, not just an acronym, and defined as a z sound, it should be spelled appropriately.

scottalanmiller

I was going to say that taser was much worse, why is that an s, but it turns out that that is an acronym for Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle - just a bad pronunciation and subsequent modification into a common word as well.