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Was just reading an article on from the Daily News on The Internet Relies on People Working for Free, and talks about cURL. Was curious what that was so googled it.
I was reading c U R L.
So did not click straight away this was curl, which i read a one word.
Don't know if this more related with dyslexia differences, or how I use the shape of words for remembering, which gets me confused when I spell a word correctly, know it is spelt correctly, but because it is either all lower case or has a first letter capital I just stare in confusion why the word looks wrong.
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No most humans are Typoglycemic and it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
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Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
Scientiæ de conservata veritate.
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Most the of time, the words don't have to be in the the right order either.
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Well,
The link is to Matt Davis who attacks the idea and demonstrates that it's possible to construct sentences that can can have dual meanings using the first/last letter rule. But there is certainly some truth to the idea.
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-David Delaune
Scientiæ de conservata veritate.
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I see what you you did there 
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Hmmm,
Was it my convoluted Latin? 
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-David Delaune
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No, I was commenting on Griff's "Most the of time" and "the the" that he slipped into his reply...
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Griff,
I must know... was this in reference to the previous latin motto in my signature?
Thanks,
-David Delaune
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No, why?
I don't remember your previous sig - or that much Latin either, it's been a lot of years - what was it?
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Well,
Nevermind then. It was a motto related to preserving all truth and knowledge. I was hoping your Latin was better than mine and could correct any grammatical mistake in my translations.
Btw are you ever going to remove @DalekDave from your sig?
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-David Delaune
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Maybe. Who can tell?
If he comes back and requests it, maybe - or if Chris gets fed up with sending the emails! 
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"tgyopmicleyc" ... hmm, not srue abuot taht. Oh, and there's a spelling error in "important" 
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I would read it as c URL, and wonder what the 'c' stood for in the context of Uniform Resource Locators
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I read it the same way, but didn't wonder - I just said to myself: "Oh, so it is implemented in C. Fair enough."
I've been working among Python programmers for too long. I never saw any other group of programmers so eager to tout their implementation language. Fortran programmers never named their applications "forSomething", Pascal programmers didn't call them "pasMyApp" or Cobol programmers "cobSolution". Well, occasionally it might happen, but for 99,9% of the solutions, the application name was some indication of the problem it solved or some product marketing name - not the name of the implementation tool. But Python programmers do that. To such a degree that I have come into the habit of stripping off any prefix that matches a common programming language name.
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I believe the leading 'c' stood for "class", not "C" (or "C++") itself.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Play with a ghost? (6)
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Hamlet
My first thought was Mcbeth (spelt that way due to the letter constraints) but somehow that didn't seem right
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Good luck continuing the theme tomorrow ...
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Well I am determined to make a far better attempt at it than I did with last week's theme
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whats the theme and how or who decides it?
Sorry I was away from CP for a month or so.
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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This weeks theme is "fairground equipment", and it's decided by a public vote on MumsNet.
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Could you explain the solution?
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The theme follows on from yesterday's answer of "Village". A hamlet is a small settlement (not much smaller than a village) which fits in with the theme.
Hamlet is also the name of a Shakespeare play, which is well know (by all those that know it well) for featuring a ghost.
Remember, these themed clues don't always follow the traditional rules of containing a definition of the answer. It is assumed that we already know the theme in advance.
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Oh, I knew the theme and knew there was a Play named Hamlet by Shakespeare, I just never read it and didn't know it had a ghost in it. Hence the confusion.
Thanks for the clarification. 
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