Dictation has gotten worse in the last six months or so, it “corrects“ words to the wrong versions all the time. It also misspells words it didn’t use to misspell, adding apostrophes where they don’t belong, or introducing other common errors. Really annoying to someone who knows the...
Python keywordsare special words reserved for specific meanings and uses, and you can’t use them as variable names. If you misspell, misplace, or forget to use a keyword, the interpreter raises an error. For instance, if you’re trying to import therequestsandpprintmodules into your web s...
Pay attention to social media profile names and domains too. Big brands will usually have their social media profiles verified and their website copy will always be grammatically correct. Domain typosquatting is a very common tactic whereby scammers slightly misspell words in the hope you don’...
Additions to the beginning (prefixes) or end (suffixes) of root words can change a word from an adjective (e.g., happy) into a noun (happiness), or an adverb (happily), into its opposite (unhappy), or affect the tense of a verb. The problem with prefixes and suffixes is that they...
Even though the traceback looks a lot like theSyntaxErrortraceback, it’s actually anIndentationError. The error message is also very helpful. It tells you that the indentation level of the line doesn’t match any other indentation level. In other words,print('done')is indented 2 spaces, bu...
Although what follows is a list of common spelling errors in Nigerian written English, it needs to be pointed out that native speakers of the English language are just as awful.Farooq A. Kperogi
Big coprs will never completely shift to Apple unless there is a cost-effective high-profit reason to do so. In other words, ain’t gonna happen on a closed hardware platform en-mass. Who has a chance to winning corporations? Nobody. For at least 20 or 30 years, if ever. ...