Silly AchievementsHappy Phantom writes, "Sometimes - by planning or happy accident - you achieve something with which you are quite pleased, but which makes little or no difference to the rest of the world.
"This morning, I woke up and spontaneously farted the opening three notes from The Frog Chorus."
What did YOU do?
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chthonic, Thu 16 Oct 2014, 16:04)
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I once corrected the Oxford English DictionaryI spotted something in one of the definitions that was wrong. They'd cited a poem as a reference and had the title and date of the poem wrong. So I wrote them an email and I got a reply back thanking me for pointing out the mistake and promising to correct it in the next edition, which they did.
Quite boring, but it does mean when someone tells me something's right because the dictionary says so I can just go "I fucking CORRECT the dictionary!".
Lots of people at work don't like me much.
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I did have the emailprinted out and framed for a couple of years. Then someone pointed out it was a bit tragic and I left it behind in a flat move.
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Seriously, what was the definition and what was the word and what was the correction. Which edition of theOED and when was it corrected.
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d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Fri 17 Oct 2014, 10:53,
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GelidCorrection from 2nd edition to 3rd edition (which isn't out yet) but it's corrected on the web edition.
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I like this and don't think it's at all tragic to keep the email...In fact, I'm rather jealous of your achievement and wish it had happened to me.
Now THAT'S tragic!
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Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Fri 17 Oct 2014, 10:37,
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I did something similar once.I spotted a typo in the SOED. The difference here is that I didn't notify them.
Nor did I remember what it was.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 17 Oct 2014, 12:00,
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