Yes. To be exact, not all capitalized words, but all capitalized words that my English spellchecker does not recognize. With all capitalized words the list would start like this:
1523 I
1327 The
558 It
428 If
379 But
Of course the spellchecking method is itself a source of errors. Previous years I never felt like manually correcting these, but checking now it seems like these were the main victims:
Graham 43
Bacon 20
Newton 18
Franklin 18
Shaw 17
Silver 12
Pinker 10
Graham is actually number one. I added them to this list, and also to the “Top original authors by karma collected” list. Not retroactively, though, just for 2013.
With all capitalized words the list would start like this:
You know that feeling you get when you’re coding, and you write something poorly and briefly expect it to Do What You Mean, before being abruptly corrected by the output? I think I just had that feeling at long distance.
Yes. To be exact, not all capitalized words, but all capitalized words that my English spellchecker does not recognize. With all capitalized words the list would start like this:
1523 I
1327 The
558 It
428 If
379 But
Of course the spellchecking method is itself a source of errors. Previous years I never felt like manually correcting these, but checking now it seems like these were the main victims:
Graham 43
Bacon 20
Newton 18
Franklin 18
Shaw 17
Silver 12
Pinker 10
Graham is actually number one. I added them to this list, and also to the “Top original authors by karma collected” list. Not retroactively, though, just for 2013.
You know that feeling you get when you’re coding, and you write something poorly and briefly expect it to Do What You Mean, before being abruptly corrected by the output? I think I just had that feeling at long distance.