A micro-talk about pedantryby Nate Abele (@nateabele).

• Depreciation

• noun- a reduction in the value of an asset with the passage of time, due in particular to wear and tear.- decrease in the value of a currency relative to other currencies : depreciation leads to losses for nondollar-based investors | a currency depreciation.

• Deprecation

• noun- to express earnest disapproval of.- to urge reasons against; protest against (a scheme, purpose, etc.).- Archaic: to pray for deliverance from.

• Tenant

• nouna person who occupies land or property rented from a landlord.

• Tenet

• nouna principle or belief, esp. one of the main principles of a religion or philosophy : the tenets of classical liberalism.

“Don’t reinvent the f**king wheel;Use SPL (I’m looking at you, people

who write directory iterators).”- Elizabeth Marie Smith

“For all intensive purposes”

• Srsly, WTF?

• Do your purposes concentrate on a single subject?

• Are your purposes compressed into a short amount of time??

• Are you trying to give your purposes a lot of force or emphasis?!?

‘Intents’, it’s f**king ‘intents’

• Intents

•And

•Purposes

like camping!

F**king enunciate!i.e. “say or pronounce clearly”

• Alternate

• verboccur in turn repeatedly

• like zebra-striping table rows

• Alternative

• adjectiveoccur in turn repeatedly

• Synonymous with the other alternate (confusing!)

• But not that confusing, so f**king get it right!

• For example, an alternate route.

While we’re on the topic of routes...

It’s route, not root.

I don’t care if you’re Canadian.

Roots are the things at thebottoms of trees, and atthe top of your directory

structure.

Corollary: unlike root, a rutis what you get stuck in.

• Accept

• verbconsent to receive (a thing offered) : he accepted a pen as a present.

• Except

• prepositionnot including; other than : naked except for my socks | they work every day except Sunday.

Perl

Need I f**king say more?

• Morale

• nounthe confidence, enthusiasm, and discipline of a person or group at a particular time : their morale was high.

• Moral

• adjectiveconcerned with the principles of right and wrong behavior and the goodness or badness of human character

• Principle

• nouna fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behavior or for a chain of reasoning : the basic principles of Christianity.

• Principal

• adjectivefirst in order of importance; main : the country's principal cities.

“Ajax is not s**t moving around on the screen.S**t moving around on the screen is DHTML.”

- Ed Finkler

Irregardless

‘Irregardless’ is not a f**king word!

See the red dots/squiggles thatappear under it when you type?

That’s not for no reason.

Maybe you’re thinking of ‘irrespective’?

“Go thou and sin no more.” *- Jesus

* Approximate translation from the original Aramaic.