Loose Referers August 12, 2007
Posted by Aaron in : Work , trackbackWarning, there be nerd rocks ahead, abandon all hope ye who read on… To avoid nerd rocks, Goto SafeHarbor.
I always have the worst time spelling the word referrer. When I’m working with PHP, or several other web-based development systems, I alway spell it incorrectly and have to go back and correct it. None of the development tools I use have built in spell checkers for obvious reasons, even well organized pretty code isn’t going to pass any conventional spell checker. I’ve always considered this typo to be an extension of the double-strike phenomena that bothers Michael so much and causes me to loose the dogs of war, when I really wanted to lose the dogs of war. An inconvenient typo to say the least when being chased by said dogs.
All that said, after I fix my spelling of it, the word always looks wrong, again I’ve just attributed it to my brain’s tendency to pick certain words and cling desperately to an incorrect spelling. But while poking around I’ve discovered I’m not crazy after all, at least not for this particular thing. Proto web-nerds from the 90s so commonly misspelled referrer as “referer” that the http specifications actually use the misspelled form which has as a result been adopted as a standard industry spelling. To which I would like to stand up and with my sternest look, tell the tech industry: Bad industry bad! There is enough creating of technical words, there need not be extra bastardization of the english language just because you kan’t spel guud.
SafeHarbor:
And as a result of all this, we routinely have to reverse the polarity on the substrates… Oh sorry, you caught the end of the nerd rocks. Hope you weren’t drinking pop at the same time, I hear nerd rocks and soda can make for quite the rumbly tummy.
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Sorry, we have been really busy and originally my aunt was going to do the pictures. Elizabeth has been hassling me forever to get them done. So yes she is patient and not just because of that. I can’t help it that I am absent minded and dense.
I just left that comment on the wrong thing. Ooops.