Joe Zeff posted on Sat, 03 Sep 2011 11:58:15 -0700 as excerpted: > On 09/03/2011 11:38 AM, Jim Henderson wrote: >> I thought about saying something, Duncan, but usually when I do, >> McKean's Law rears its ugly head. :) > > That's one I've not heard of, or at least not by that name. Is it the > one about every spelling/grammar flame having at least one error of its > own?
A quick google says yes, but it is in fact known by other names as well. (I subscribe to the language log RSS feed but this was well before I did so.) http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002035.html Also, see wikipedia (note the deliberate misspelling, which I have trouble seeing even knowing its there, as my mind does an auto- correction): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law ... which among other references points to a different LL article: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002641.html I wonder if there's some law about multiple names in such cases... -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
