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Alexx Kay ([personal profile] alexxkay) wrote2010-06-20 12:49 pm
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[identity profile] umbran.livejournal.com 2010-06-20 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Whatever statistical value that piece may hold is put into question by the author's repeated use of "dice" (plural) to denote a single die. I'm not going to trust the experimental procedure and statistical analysis of someone who can't manage to get subject-verb agreement. :/

[identity profile] cvirtue.livejournal.com 2010-06-20 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
He has trouble with affect/effect, too, but I'm not going to hold that against his results.
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[identity profile] thnidu.livejournal.com 2010-06-20 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I noticed that too, every time. But I agree with cvirtue that it's irrelevant. My English teacher in HS senior year, one of the best friends and best English teachers I ever had, had problems with spelling.

I'm on your side on "one die, multiple dice", but it's a losing battle in the long term. We specen not lic Eadweard cyning. (That's almost certainly ungrammatical -- I haven't studied Old English for mumble mumble -- but it's certainly true.)