Friday, August 11, 2006

Odd




Just plain silly.



Incidentally, why does Multiply's spell checker think I'm Spanish?






28 comments:

Peter Sealy said...

Didn't know Multiply had a spell checker.

Matt F said...

I guess that's what the button marked "Preview and Spell Check" does...

Jonathan Phillips said...

¿señor, no eres español?

XXXX YYYY said...

It sometimes thinks I'm Spanish too.

Maybe sometimes I am.

Jonathan Phillips said...

how does this manifest itself [grac]? I'm curious!

XXXX YYYY said...

Well. I have no fashion sence. I sleep all day, drink all night, and drive like a maniac.

Jonathan Phillips said...

but only sometimes. That's reassuring.

XXXX YYYY said...

Maybe it's the way you repeatedly spell sense?

Matt Worldgineer said...

Don't blame Grac. He tried to spell check, but it only gave him siesta and Señora.

XXXX YYYY said...

Yeah. Well, if he's looking for sympathy he'll find it between "shit" and "syphilis" in the dictionary.

Chris G said...

sorry me and curtis are having a few drinks tonight down the local - sheesh, so funny what he just told me about you...

Jonathan Phillips said...

Curtis?

Chris G said...

you have to ask?

Jonathan Phillips said...

do you think i do? [reminds me of a game on "Who's line is it anyway"]

Matt Worldgineer said...

Curtis is the legendary tech support guru here at Multiply. Every time anyone asks for technical help, Curtis responds almost immediately. We've never quite decided if there is only one, well overworked, Curtis, or a whole world of Oompa-loompa-like Curtii in a server farm deep underground.

TARA W said...

Excuse me, but your bananacell is ringing.

Jonathan Phillips said...

[continues the thread in question form]

...ah, you mean the tech support Curtis?

XXXX YYYY said...

That would be the "tech support Curtii".

XXXX YYYY said...

I get that sometimes too. It comes and goes. I think it must be using some sort of heuristic algorithm to determine the language and gets it wrong sometimes.

Andrew C said...

When it does that, I usually put the word "The" at the beginning of the post (to hint to the spool chucker)

XXXX YYYY said...

Maybe you should write in Spanish with every other letter in CAPS so they'll form words in English, and we'll decode your posts like a buncha spies. Nah, too complicated, 'cos you'll have to learn Spanish first. Just stick to English and ignore the spellchecker.

Chris G said...

the last reply I got was from a Paul.

and they don't respond so quickly these days, I believe this is because Multiply has multiplyed and got quite enormous.

Matt F said...

Hah! I got Curtis. He obviously likes me more.

Chris G said...

he only wants you for your yellow banana

XXXX YYYY said...

I once asked Curtis whether he was a single, corporeal being, or a collective. It told me it was a single person.

Chris G said...

how rude is that..

XXXX YYYY said...

What? That he admitted to being a single person? I thought it was pretty rude, yeah...

Matt F said...

Not surprised Curtis is single - it spends all its time on the internet.