Re: Missed It By That Much

Butch Malahide <fred.galvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On May 2, 9:38 pm, d...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (David DeLaney) wrote:
>> >confident they can penetrate both the Heavyside and Appleton layers
>> >which surround the earth, at respective levels of sixty and two
>> >hundred miles, so that we can keep in constant touch with this planet
>> >during our travels and while on the moon.
[...]
>> Wow. An actual in-the-wild example of lectury infodump with embedded
"You
>> know, of course, ..." _and_ gratuitous numerical measurements.
>>
>> (The speaker also seems to be forgetting that only half of everywhere,
at
>> a given time, could receive them in that manner...)
>
>You had to post those gratuitous criticky comments, but you overlooked
>the misspelling of Heaviside?

It was a rather common misspelling, in its defense; I had to look it up to
see which was correct (it was someone's name to start with, as was
Kennelly).
Google makes it "very common", at 9K for the misspelling vs 26K for the
correct spelling...

But really I was just marvelling at seeing an actual example that got
published of one of the Sins we want to warn authors against these days.

Dave
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