From: Shlomi Fish Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2016 18:33:31 +0000 (+0300) Subject: Correct typos. X-Git-Tag: fortune-mod-1.99.3~27 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=dda9e1afe8c7d80f762f98bb32e9f271ddde13be;p=fortune-mod Correct typos. --- diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE index f4eaaa5..30e446a 100644 --- a/LICENSE +++ b/LICENSE @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ * + Percent selection of files with -a now works on datafiles which * appear in both unoffensive and offensive directories (see man page * for details) - * + The -s and -l options are now more consistant in their + * + The -s and -l options are now more consistent in their * interpretation of fortune length * + The -s and -l options can now be combined wit the -m option */ diff --git a/fortune-mod/COPYING.txt b/fortune-mod/COPYING.txt index f4eaaa5..30e446a 100644 --- a/fortune-mod/COPYING.txt +++ b/fortune-mod/COPYING.txt @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ * + Percent selection of files with -a now works on datafiles which * appear in both unoffensive and offensive directories (see man page * for details) - * + The -s and -l options are now more consistant in their + * + The -s and -l options are now more consistent in their * interpretation of fortune length * + The -s and -l options can now be combined wit the -m option */ diff --git a/fortune-mod/ChangeLog b/fortune-mod/ChangeLog index 0df83d3..5510ece 100644 --- a/fortune-mod/ChangeLog +++ b/fortune-mod/ChangeLog @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ order, which is The Right Thing for ChangeLogs - DLC) March 05, 2004 (fortune-mod-1.99.1) - Most of the changes have occured at some point in time in the last + Most of the changes have occurred at some point in time in the last 5 years. A high number of spelling, punctuation, formatting and grammar @@ -61,10 +61,10 @@ May, 1997 the test platform. While the making of this release was not meant to become a bug - search-and-destroy mission, some bugs were inadvertantly discovered + search-and-destroy mission, some bugs were inadvertently discovered and fixed. including the known bug of using -a with a file that occurs in both the offensive and inoffensive directories. Fixing this - particular bug required a way to be able to seperately identify two + particular bug required a way to be able to separately identify two fortune files with the same name, with one in the inoffensive directory, the other one in the offensive directory. Now, such a name will be taken to be the inoffensive file by default. However, you can @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ May, 1997 asking for trouble. Bug fixed: Fortune's definition of a fortune length (for -s and -l) - was inconsistant. Unordered fortunes counted the 2 delimiting + was inconsistent. Unordered fortunes counted the 2 delimiting characters (as hinted in the man page), but sorted or randomized fortunes did not. Now the delimiting characters are _NEVER_ counted, so you will always get the length limit you expect. diff --git a/fortune-mod/Notes b/fortune-mod/Notes index 3c5bce3..98acb3b 100644 --- a/fortune-mod/Notes +++ b/fortune-mod/Notes @@ -42,9 +42,9 @@ MUST be in the potentially offensive database. Fortunes containing any explicit language (see George Carlin's recent updated list) MUST be in the potentially offensive database. Political and religious opinions are often sequestered in the potentially offensive section as well. Anything which -assumes as a world view blatantly racist, mysogynist (sexist), or homophobic +assumes as a world view blatantly racist, misogynist (sexist), or homophobic ideas should not be in either, since they are not really funny unless *you* -are racist, mysogynist, or homophobic. +are racist, misogynist, or homophobic. The point of this is that people have should have a reasonable expectation that, should they just run "fortune", they will not be offended. We know that some people take offense at anything, but normal people do have @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ a program which is supposed to be entertaining. People who run "fortune -o" or "fortune -a" are saying, in effect, that they are willing to have their sensibilities tweaked. However, they should not have their personal worth seriously (i.e., not in jest) assaulted. Jokes which depend for their -humor on racist, mysogynist, or homophobic stereotypes *do* seriously +humor on racist, misogynist, or homophobic stereotypes *do* seriously assault individual personal worth, and in an general entertainment medium we should be able to get by without it. diff --git a/fortune-mod/README b/fortune-mod/README index e36d3e4..c6814c0 100644 --- a/fortune-mod/README +++ b/fortune-mod/README @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ offensive directories. This was solved by allowing the user to append '-o' to a fortune name while `-a' is in effect to force selection of the offensive version of a database. -Other changes/fixes: Fortune is now consistant in how it determines a +Other changes/fixes: Fortune is now consistent in how it determines a fortune's length (for -s and -l). The -m can now be used together with -s or -l: only fortunes which match _BOTH_ the pattern and the length requirement will be printed. diff --git a/fortune-mod/datfiles/cookie b/fortune-mod/datfiles/cookie index 49b0f65..4d80151 100644 --- a/fortune-mod/datfiles/cookie +++ b/fortune-mod/datfiles/cookie @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. % Do not allow this language (Ada) in its present state to be used in applications where reliability is critical, i.e., nuclear power stations, -cruise missiles, early warning systems, anti-ballistic missle defense +cruise missiles, early warning systems, anti-ballistic missile defense systems. The next rocket to go astray as a result of a programming language error may not be an exploratory space rocket on a harmless trip to Venus: It may be a nuclear warhead exploding over one of our cities. An unreliable @@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ dangerous. The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it. - Brian Kernighan % -Perfection is acheived only on the point of collapse. +Perfection is achieved only on the point of collapse. - C. N. Parkinson % There you go man, @@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ than the schedule allowed. The control program manager had 150 men. He asserted that they could prepare the specifications, with the architecture team coordinating; it would be -well-done and practical, and he could do it on schedule. Futhermore, if +well-done and practical, and he could do it on schedule. Furthermore, if the architecture team did it, his 150 men would sit twiddling their thumbs for ten months. @@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man is and will always be a wild animal. -- Charles Galton Darwin % -Natural selection won't matter soon, not anywhere as much as concious +Natural selection won't matter soon, not anywhere as much as conscious selection. We will civilize and alter ourselves to suit our ideas of what we can be. Within one more human lifespan, we will have changed ourselves unrecognizably. @@ -768,7 +768,7 @@ People think my friend George is weird because he wears sideburns...behind his ears. I think he's weird because he wears false teeth...with braces on them. -- Steven Wright % -My brother sent me a postcard the other day with this big sattelite photo of +My brother sent me a postcard the other day with this big satellite photo of the entire earth on it. On the back it said: "Wish you were here". -- Steven Wright % @@ -879,7 +879,7 @@ I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied only by a change in our world view. We shall have to shift from the materialistic, dualistic belief that people and their environment are separate, toward a -new conciousness of an all-encompassing reality, which embraces the +new consciousness of an all-encompassing reality, which embraces the experiencing ego, a reality in which people feel their oneness with animate nature and all of creation. - Dr. Albert Hoffman @@ -891,7 +891,7 @@ account the peculiar effects of these substances, namely their ability to influence our consciousness, the innermost essence of our being. The history of LSD to date amply demonstrates the catastrophic consequences that can ensue when its profound effect is misjudged and the substance is mistaken -for a pleasure drug. Special internal and external advance preperations +for a pleasure drug. Special internal and external advance preparations are required; with them, an LSD experiment can become a meaningful experience. - Dr. Albert Hoffman, the discoverer of LSD @@ -1147,7 +1147,7 @@ So we follow our wandering paths, and the very darkness acts as our guide and our doubts serve to reassure us. - Jean-Pierre de Caussade, eighteenth-century Jesuit priest % -Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurence of the +Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. - H. L. Mencken % @@ -1160,7 +1160,7 @@ I judge a religion as being good or bad based on whether its adherents become better people as a result of practicing it. - Joe Mullally, computer salesman % -Imitation is the sincerest form of plagarism. +Imitation is the sincerest form of plagiarism. % "Unibus timeout fatal trap program lost sorry" - An error message printed by DEC's RSTS operating system for the PDP-11 @@ -1530,13 +1530,13 @@ Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof. There are many examples of outsiders who eventually overthrew entrenched scientific orthodoxies, but they prevailed with irrefutable data. More often, egregious findings that contradict well-established research turn out to be artifacts. I have -argued that accepting psychic powers, reincarnation, "cosmic conciousness," +argued that accepting psychic powers, reincarnation, "cosmic consciousness," and the like, would entail fundamental revisions of the foundations of neuroscience. Before abandoning materialist theories of mind that have paid handsome dividends, we should insist on better evidence for psi phenomena than presently exists, especially when neurology and psychology themselves offer more plausible alternatives. -- Barry L. Beyerstein, "The Brain and Conciousness: Implications for Psi +- Barry L. Beyerstein, "The Brain and Consciousness: Implications for Psi Phenomena", The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. XII No. 2, ppg. 163-171 % Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. @@ -1822,7 +1822,7 @@ has, after eleven years, left the sect he was associated with. The problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy -- and it does not matter whether that philosophy is generally reasonable and high-minded or utterly bizarre and -irrational -- the powers of reason are suprisingly ineffective in +irrational -- the powers of reason are surprisingly ineffective in changing the believer's mind. - Steve Allen, comdeian, from an essay in the book "The Courage of Conviction", edited by Philip Berman @@ -1893,7 +1893,7 @@ and disabilities that constitute a concrete personality...Whether this educative process is carried on in a predominantly democratic or non- democratic way becomes, therefore, a question of transcendent importance not only for education itself but for its final effect upon all the -interests and activites of a society that is committed to the democratic +interests and activities of a society that is committed to the democratic way of life. - John Dewey (1859-1953), American philosopher % @@ -1985,7 +1985,7 @@ federal government. "There is such a fine line between genius and stupidity." - David St. Hubbins, "Spinal Tap" % -"If Diet Coke did not exist it would have been neccessary to invent it." +"If Diet Coke did not exist it would have been necessary to invent it." -- Karl Lehenbauer % I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and by men who @@ -2196,7 +2196,7 @@ natural world. -- Kendrick Frazier, "The Year in Science: An Overview," in 1988 Yearbook of Science and the Future, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. % -"jackpot: you may have an unneccessary change record" +"jackpot: you may have an unnecessary change record" -- message from "diff" % "One lawyer can steal more than a hundred men with guns." @@ -2656,7 +2656,8 @@ fire them all off, wouldn't you?" -- TV Guide, describing the Star Trek episode _Amok_Time_ % "Poor man... he was like an employee to me." --- The police commisioner on "Sledge Hammer" laments the death of his bodyguard +-- The police commissioner on "Sledge Hammer" laments the death of his +bodyguard % "Trust me. I know what I'm doing." -- Sledge Hammer @@ -3601,7 +3602,7 @@ You are in a maze of UUCP connections, all alike. % 8) Use common sense in routing cable. Avoid wrapping coax around sources of strong electric or magnetic fields. Do not wrap the cable around - flourescent light ballasts or cyclotrons, for example. + fluorescent light ballasts or cyclotrons, for example. -- Ethernet Headstart Product, Information and Installation Guide, Bell Technologies, pg. 11 % @@ -4071,7 +4072,7 @@ at billions of operations per second (gigaflops). % backups: always in season, never out of style. % -"There was a vague, unpleasant manginess about his appearence; he somehow +"There was a vague, unpleasant manginess about his appearance; he somehow seemed dirty, though a close glance showed him as carefully shaven as an actor, and clad in immaculate linen." -- H.L. Mencken, on the death of William Jennings Bryan @@ -4161,7 +4162,7 @@ is averse to science...In general, these attitudes fall onto friendly American turf....But at the outer edges, this skepticism about science easily turns into a kind of naive acceptance of nonscience, or even nonsense. The same people who doubt experts can also believe any quackery, from the benefits of -laetrile to eye of newt to the movment of planets. We lose the capacity to +laetrile to eye of newt to the movement of planets. We lose the capacity to make rational -- scientific -- judgments. It's all the same. -- Ellen Goodman, The Boston Globe Newspaper Company-Washington Post Writers Group @@ -4280,7 +4281,7 @@ We do not claim -- we *prove*." % "I turn on my television set. I see a young lady who goes under the guise of being a Christian, known all over the nation, dressed in skin-tight -leather pants, shaking and wiggling her hips to the beat and rythm of the +leather pants, shaking and wiggling her hips to the beat and rhythm of the music as the strobe lights beat their patterns across the stage and the band plays the contemporary rock sound which cannot be differentiated from songs by the Grateful Dead, the Beatles, or anyone else. And you may try @@ -4569,7 +4570,7 @@ TETflame programme: 3) The TETflame flaming representatives include: Richard Sexton, Oleg Kisalev, Diane Holt, Trish O'Tauma, Dave Hill, Greg Nowak and our most - recent aquisition, Keith Doyle. But all he will do is put you in his + recent acquisition, Keith Doyle. But all he will do is put you in his kill file. Weemba by special arrangement. -- Richard Sexton @@ -5201,7 +5202,7 @@ of him that brought her birth." chosen mode of existence!" -- Jim Morrison (morrisj@mist.cs.orst.edu) % -"BYTE editors are men who seperate the wheat from the chaff, and then +"BYTE editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff." -- Lionel Hummel (uiucdcs!hummel), derived from a quote by Adlai Stevenson, Sr. % @@ -5368,7 +5369,7 @@ happened to be in the right. -- Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin % "If I ever get around to writing that language depompisifier, it will change -almost all occurences of the word "paradigm" into "example" or "model." +almost all occurrences of the word "paradigm" into "example" or "model." -- Herbie Blashtfalt % "Life, loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it." @@ -5547,11 +5548,11 @@ One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn't be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending -to be so outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn't understand -hat was going on, and really being genuinely stupid. He was reknowned for -being quite clever and quite clearly was so -- but not all the time, which -obviously worried him, hence the act. He preferred people to be puzzled -rather than contemptuous. This above all appeared to Trillian to be +to be so outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn't +understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid. He was +renowned for being quite clever and quite clearly was so -- but not all the +time, which obviously worried him, hence the act. He preferred people to be +puzzled rather than contemptuous. This above all appeared to Trillian to be genuinely stupid, but she could no longer be bothered to argue about. -- Douglas Adams, _The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_ %