Skigeek 2010

[Becky Bruce]

On Jun 26, 2009, at 2:40 PM, David Woodhouse wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 12:17 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> David Woodhouse wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 12:12 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>>> David Woodhouse wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 12:08 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>>>>> David Woodhouse wrote:
>>>>>>> On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 10:32 -0500, Becky Bruce wrote:
>>>>>>>> 'Wild waIving (sic) of hands...." Is that you practicing your
>>>>>>>> dancing?  I'm thinking this is the year of www.lambadajes.com.
>>>>>>> Since we're being pedantic, ITYM 'practising'.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You spell it with a 'c' for a noun, with an 's' for a verb. Like
>>>>>>> device/devise, advice/advise, etc.
>>>>>> We don't (on this side of the pond).  Well, we do for advice/ 
>>>>>> device,
>>>>>> but we don't follow that practice on all words.
>>>>> I know you don't on licence/license -- but I've been led to  
>>>>> believe that
>>>>> you do for practice/practise. "Practicing" has never been a  
>>>>> word, AFAIK.
>>>> I've never seen or used "practise" in .us.  FWIW.  ;)
>>>
>>> Interesting.
>>>
>>> Er, so did you "simplify" licence/license to the verb form,
>>> practice/practise to the noun form, and leave the others as they  
>>> were?
>>>
>>> Is that really easier? Or am I misunderstanding the motivation for  
>>> the
>>> changes?
>>
>> Sorry, I have no idea.  I didn't do those things personally.
>> Happened before I had a chance to change them.
>>
>> But it's probably easier just to have one spelling for any of them...
>> not that we can be consistent.
>
> Oh well, either way I stand corrected and will have to find some other
> reason to pick on Becky. Just as well there are plenty to choose  
> from...

I suppose, at this point, that all that's left for me to say to Dave  
is "neener neener :-P."

BTW, it was not my goal to be pedantic.  Sadly, the use of "sic" was  
hammered into my head a long time ago by crazed journalism  
instructors.   You should have mocked my use of parenthses instead of  
brackets around the sic, which was an actual mistake :)

Speaking of goals and picking on people, my only goal for Skigeek 2010  
is to avoid providing more fodder for polkabecky.com.....

Cheers,
Becky