Typos on chess.com
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Jul 3, 2008
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ah, now i see the error. i forgot to add in the extra "m".
(he does have to drive a long distance in to work every day you know 
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i just noticed one too, in Tactics Trainer's 'report problem'. i'm not sure but i think the word incorrect is spelled incorrectly. probably an intentional pun ;)
do you comute to work erik?
What the heck was that? something just zoomed right over my head.
ooops 
Jul 3, 2008
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#11
you said that "comuter" was misspelled, expecting that i would think it to be corrected to "computer". but as a joke i said that it is missing an "m", which would make it "commuter", which is someone who drives to work every day in a car. :)
I've thought about mentioning this one, but haven't thought it deserves it's own thread, but it is one of my pet peeves: "Click the board to try and solve!". Aaaarrrgh! "Click the board to try to solve!"
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I get it now eriK, but thank you for spieling it out for me. But at the time it all just zipping over my head... messed up my hair and everything.
Loomis wrote: I've thought about mentioning this one, but haven't thought it deserves it's own thread, but it is one of my pet peeves: "Click the board to try and solve!". Aaaarrrgh! "Click the board to try to solve!"
You can try and solve. You can also try and fail to solve. I don't see the problem....
TheGrobe, I'd bet you dollars to donuts that was not the intent of the author.
TheGrobe wrote: Loomis wrote: I've thought about mentioning this one, but haven't thought it deserves it's own thread, but it is one of my pet peeves: "Click the board to try and solve!". Aaaarrrgh! "Click the board to try to solve!"
You can try and solve. You can also try and fail to solve. I don't see the problem....
If you don't see the problem, how can you try and solve?
"Try and" is a speech pattern replacement for "try to". It's popular because it's easier to say. But the meaning is the meaning that TheGrobe interpreted it to be. In this case "solve" is no longer the object of the verb "try". My guess is that the author would like to write the sentence inviting the user to try solving the puzzle, not to try the puzzle and also solve it. In this case "to solve" is the object of "try".
Put "try and" "try to" into google and enjoy all the Grammar Nazi's rants about it.
Oh, no totally, Loomis. You're right. But I just don't think that explaining it to people is the best way to try and solve the problem.
I'm sure I've seen some others around here...
but figured you might like to know that your little chess partner is called a comuter on its link to page.