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“I am a bit in the war”

Roland Geraerts30 July 2012

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Check, mate!

Use a spelling checker!

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Common errors

its versus it's It's is a contraction for it is or it has. Its is a possessive

pronoun, meaning, of it or belonging to it. abbreviations

Don't use abbreviations like min (minimum), wrt (with respect to), etc. ;-)

dashes Use dashes appropriately, e.g. multi-core, planning-based,

imposter-based, non-optimal, non-convex, collision-free configurations.

Apostrophes Don't write: Papers discussion's points.

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Common errors

Dunglish "I am a bit in the war" (from the Dutch Ik ben een beetje in de

war, translates as "I am a little bit confused") Just avoid it, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunglish.

I won't see these mistakes through my fingers!

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Common errors: Punctuation

Dutch puts a comma after restrictive relative clauses; hence mistakes like: The concern they show, is by no means exaggerated.

Commas may be used between unlinked clauses: This is somewhat surprising, as they are forbidden in Dutch

too, they nevertheless occur regularly. Abbreviations entirely in lower case or ending in lower case

are normally followed by periods: Mr. and Mrs. i.e.

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Interrogative and negative structures

Dutch has no do-support What mean you? Thank you, I smoke not

Preposition-stranding in questions is unknown in Dutch. The sentence Who are you talking to? is wrong. To whom are you talking?

Dutch uses interrogative adverbials beginning with the equivalent of where to ask question about things. Where do you need that for?

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Students’ mistakes

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local field value… …followed by section 9; …as shown in figure 2. Datastructure …eg. Drawn by some level designer… Calculate amount of iterations.

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Students’ mistakes

g denotes the goal position of the route. …our two dimensional environment 8. Prove …in the video’s and our character. … vision-based algorithm… Therefore our… …15 possible directions…, which was the required amount

for realistic behaviour… In the first no collisions can occur… …the wall-segment is infinite. …agents only reacted to other agents when they were in

its field of view.

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Students’ mistakes

This behaviour is create even more distinctive. Pettré et al. constructs a navigation graph …the truly shortest path The field of robotics has also been using other… …but by default it does not… This is because when the set of circles is continuous, the

character will… If the the velocity based approach… All experiments were run … …lie on one and the same plane. A data structure that, based on our restriction, can solve

path planning queries…