Re: Compile with watcom fails
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Apr 08, 2012
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Thanks Matt, Looks like your right, changed the command line to
It's just amazing to me you can write Euphoria code when you do not know the difference between "your" and "you are". Congratulations.
Common expression in my part of the world. Would you'r be better :) We tend to combine two words into one to save time in theser hills, I.E. These here hills :) (and yes I know that's not proper english either) Course if euporia used some of my lingo it would be perfect instead of just very good!
There is a contraction for "you are", it's "you're". I do not know of "you'r", which you mentioned. The word "your" is not pronounced like "you're"; "your" is pronounced a lot like "yore" (which is also a word), while "you're" starts with pronouncing "you", which is quite a bit different to my ear.
Dictionary.com shows that the two have overlapping pronounciations:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/your?db=%252A http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/you're?db=%252A
To compare with the word yore :
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/yore?db=%252A
It's possible that some dialects of english prefer a "yore" sounding "your", while others prefer a "you're" sounding "your" - but either pronounciation is correct.
Trying to state that one pronounciation is better than the other smacks of snob appeal - it feels to me like one is saying "my dialect is superior to your dialect."
And the words "yore", "your", and "you're" all mean different things, just like "byte", "bite", and "bight", , or "they're", "there", and "their", , or "two", "too", "to", "tu" (Spanish), and "tutu" mean different things. It's not a matter of "better" words, or snob appeal, it's about choosing the word to write what you mean. Words are names for concepts, if you chose the wrong word, you are stating the wrong concept.
True. Absolutely true. Even so, I believe that as long as the meaning can be understood easily and effortlessly, there is nothing wrong with this sort of word confusion in informal speech (or less formal text-based communication). The words "to" and "tu" can be mixed up by a typo, as applies to "byte" and "bite" - but one can usually determine the meaning (and thus the correct word) by context.
This is the case even when typos do not result in valid words at all. Consider:
tehre numeric keys and table_names, but i cannot lable a key, nor can i do any wildmatch searches on tables, records, keys , or data?
