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Typo in drop down menu

  • 28-07-2008 11:07pm
    #1
    Nothingcompares
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭


    The Palaeontology forum is referred to as Paleontology in the drop down menu. This to me is like writing color. I think it should be changed.
    Post edited by Shield on


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  • #2
    Bob the Builder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,919 ✭✭✭Bob the Builder


    but the two words mean the same thing though? it's not necessarily a typo. is it?


  • #3
    GuanYin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭GuanYin


    Paleontology is the US spelling. When I discussed it with the admins, I used the US spelling because I'm american and that is how I spell it and I didn't really think too much about it. The admins obviously used my spelling.

    If Grimes wants it changed, it isn't a big deal.

    I'm not quite sure why anyone would be offended.

    If we want to be pedantic, the etymology is from the french "paléontologie" which is derived from greek.


  • #4
    Nothingcompares
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭Nothingcompares


    Guanyin, that's pretty much irrelevant. As far as I am concerned the correct spelling of the word is Palaeontology and Paleontology is incorrect. It's a simple argument, it's either changed or not changed.


  • #5
    GuanYin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭GuanYin


    Nothingcompares wrote: »
    Guanyin, that's pretty much irrelevant. As far as I am concerned the correct spelling of the word is Palaeontology and Paleontology is incorrect. It's a simple argument, it's either changed or not changed.

    Your concerns are noted.


  • #6
    Nothingcompares
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭Nothingcompares


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=623 Precedent?

    I didn't realise you were CatMod Guanyin. But I have to admit your attempts to Americanise boards.ie annoys me.


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  • #7
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,035 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    it IS color. duh


  • #8
    GuanYin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭GuanYin


    Nothingcompares wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=623 Precedent?

    I didn't realise you were CatMod Guanyin. But I have to admit your attempts to Americanise boards.ie annoys me.

    Are you suggesting your aggressive tone would be OK if I was a normal user?

    I've made attempts to Americanize boards.ie???

    This is all news to me.


  • #9
    Nothingcompares
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭Nothingcompares


    No, I feel the tone of my posts must have been lost in translation. :p

    I mean as CMod and you're willing to let it slide it's no big deal. I just thought you were a normal user so I wanted the CMod or admin to acknowledge the mistake and change it if possible. In the same vein as if the Science category was labelled Sceince. It just bothers me for no other reason that it being (imo, I see your opinion differs) incorrect.

    If this was www.boards.us (a website aimed at and used by predominantly Americans) I'd fully encourage the use of color and Paleontology. But it isn't.

    Oh I just discovered you're PSI. Well that changes things a bit because I understand you're normally a rational person, I didn't recognise your name so I presumed your clinging to the American spelling was slightly irrational.


  • #10
    GuanYin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭GuanYin


    I admit, I am fulfilling my patriotic duty to americanize Ireland.

    We've succeeded in phase 1: Reducing your IQ's with reality TV shows and phase 2: increasing obesity levels in Ireland.

    Once we have you spelling like us, we can move on to the 4th and final phase where you elect shady characters as your political leaders.....oh, wait... hold on...


  • #11
    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    Do Americans spell science as a sceince?

    Those crazy bastards... no wonder they don't believe in evolution.


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  • #12
    Nothingcompares
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭Nothingcompares


    :pac:

    I accept your point.

    Just to make it clear I've no personal gripe with America or Guanyin, just the use of Paleontology outside of America.


  • #13
    GuanYin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭GuanYin


    monkeyfudge wrote: »
    Do Americans spell science as a sceince?

    Those crazy bastards... no wonder they don't believe in evolution.

    I believe in evolution, I just believe that it happened over the space of 6,000 years as designed by God.


  • #14
    smashey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,676 ✭✭✭✭smashey


    You say potato, I say...


  • #15
    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    smashey wrote: »
    You say potato, I say...

    Lets not get started on Dan Quayle here...


  • #16
    challengemaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,930 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    Nothingcompares wrote: »
    As far as I am concerned...
    And.. you are?


  • #17
    Bob the Builder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,919 ✭✭✭Bob the Builder


    I am just dying to make a thread in feedback called "GuanYin's Misspellings and Americanism".


  • #18
    GuanYin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭GuanYin


    nevf wrote: »
    I am just dying to make a thread in feedback called "GuanYin's Misspellings and Americanism".

    Well I did forsake my own heritage, why would I care about yours? :p


  • #19
    Steve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,584 ✭✭✭✭Steve


    Will somebody PLEASE think of the children.
    What's paleontology in txt spx anyways?

    :pac:


  • #20
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    Next thing you know the americans will be giving great gobs of money to shadowy, previously unknown groups to campaign for the Irish to put a spanner in Europes growth towards threatening them as a dominant power.


    Jesus... what has gotten into me today.

    DeV.
    ps: we should probably follow the "irish" spelling of it.


  • #21
    GuanYin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭GuanYin


    DeVore wrote: »

    DeV.
    ps: we should probably follow the "irish" spelling of it.

    If you can do that it would be great. (please :) )

    As I said, it was nothing intentional, when I was PMing Vex I obviously used my spelling and he just took that. I didn't even consider the issue so the oversight is mine.


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  • #22
    Amz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,330 ✭✭✭✭Amz


    While we're at it can we change the spelling of "Racket sports" to "Racquet Sports" please.


  • #23
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    Both done.

    DeV.


  • #24
    Amz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,330 ✭✭✭✭Amz


    Much obliged :)


  • #25
    Nothingcompares
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭Nothingcompares


    Not to be a bore and a nuisance but the names in the drop down menu haven't changed although the fora names have been corrected.


  • #26
    Nothingcompares
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭Nothingcompares


    SteveC wrote: »
    Will somebody PLEASE think of the children.
    What's paleontology in txt spx anyways?

    :pac:

    Paleo ;)


  • #27
    Steve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,584 ✭✭✭✭Steve


    Nothingcompares wrote: »
    Not to be a bore and a nuisance but the names in the drop down menu haven't changed although the fora names have been corrected.

    AKAIK, that's a javascript add-in, not quite as easy as renaming the fora concerned.


  • #28
    Steve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,584 ✭✭✭✭Steve


    Nothingcompares wrote: »
    Paleo ;)

    Palaeo just doesn't work - too long.....:eek:


  • #29
    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    Nothingcompares wrote: »
    Not to be a bore and a nuisance but the names in the drop down menu haven't changed although the fora names have been corrected.

    Give it time.


  • #30
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Nothingcompares wrote: »
    Not to be a bore and a nuisance but the names in the drop down menu haven't changed although the fora names have been corrected.
    Long long ago, back when boards was but a virgin paddling in this vast ocean of interwebs, the forum menu was dynamically generated every single time you loaded a page. This was cool. Every forum which had new posts had a little star beside their name. Of course there were less than 5,000 members then, and rarely more than 200 concurrently surfing, so it was actually possible to read every new post.

    Then there was a very sudden (and now familiar) slow down on boards. Cloud linked it to this menu, and changed it from a dynamic menu, to one which was statically generated every time Cloud added a forum. As a consolation, a smaller dynamic menu was added with our subscribed forums, which still showed new posts in those forums. We were promised that this was temporary and the full dynamic menu would return in time.

    That was 2003. Of course, to dynamically generate the menu now would be a joke. There are nearly 1100 forums (going by the forumid), so you'd probably need a webserver dedicated to nothing but servicing requests for the dynamic menu. Not forgetting of course that most people only visit a handful of forums, so the dynamic subbed menu is by far the superior solution.

    The normal menu gets generated automatically once a day. No doubt by that same humble script which served us so well back in that primordial pool of boards.ie.


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  • #31
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    DeVore wrote: »
    Next thing you know the americans will be giving great gobs of money to shadowy, previously unknown groups to campaign for the Irish to put a spanner in Europes growth towards threatening them as a dominant power.


    Jesus... what has gotten into me today.

    DeV.
    ps: we should probably follow the "irish" spelling of it.
    I got it.
    I can't remember their name though.


  • #32
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    gawwd GuanYin you're such a minx, stop trying to Americanize Ireland! :mad:


  • #33
    Beruthiel
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    Nothingcompares wrote:
    But I have to admit your attempts to Americanise boards.ie annoys me.

    Perhaps it's time to go for a walk out in the fresh air then.


  • #34
    faceman
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,647 CMod ✭✭✭✭faceman


    I think it should be more PC and call it "Dinosaurs are People Too" forum.


  • #35
    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    faceman wrote: »
    I think it should be more PC and call it "Dinosaurs are People Too" forum.

    They sure are!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkAEH6uX7hQ


  • #36
    Galvasean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    While we're at it I suppose it could be mentioned in the charter that both spellings are usable, but the extra a is used in this country.

    edit: speaking of the charter why does the racism bit reference God at the end?


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  • #37
    Stabshauptmann
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,885 ✭✭✭Stabshauptmann


    Galvasean wrote: »
    speaking of the charter why does the racism bit reference God at the end?
    Read it again, its actually one of the funniest things posted here in a long time


  • #38
    Nothingcompares
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭Nothingcompares


    all fixed now thanks again


  • #39
    Steve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,584 ✭✭✭✭Steve


    Just had a quick peek in to the paleoi peail dinosaur forum, shouldn't there be a 'you know who' sticky there?

    Just in case someone starts digging up dirt on the subject.

    /sorry


  • #40
    Galvasean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    Kaptain Redeye wrote: »
    Read it again, its actually one of the funniest things posted here in a long time

    But according to Luis V. Rey all dinosaurs were not created equal..


  • #41
    Talliesin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,314 ✭✭✭Talliesin


    Palæontology.


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  • #42
    smashey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,676 ✭✭✭✭smashey


    Talliesin wrote: »
    Palæontology.
    Classic. :)


  • #43
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    I draw the line at diphthongs, or indeed any thongs.

    DeV.


  • #44
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    DeVore wrote: »
    I draw the line at diphthongs, or indeed any thongs.

    DeV.
    What about the thong song? Thoughts?


  • #45
    javaboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    Tut tut. Say it together now: "I" before "E" except after "C" (plus a whole load of other stupid exceptions)

    attachment.php?attachmentid=60597&stc=1&d=1217552110


    Also it should be "Snickers / Triathlon" in the sports menu. Get with the times. It hasn't been Marathon for about 20 years.


  • #46
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    Wasnt me, but its sorted now :)

    DeV.


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