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The Gyllenhaal Experiment

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Re: The Gyllenhaal Experiment

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Right click link -> Open link in incognito window Hacky workaround, yes, but this is HN after all

or you can just delete your site cookies. I strongly doubt that they are fingerprinting you.

It's in local storage. I did the same as GP, and the data for your responses is in local storage.

Re: The Gyllenhaal Experiment

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Can you spell bureau? Maybe you can make a mnemonic, how are you with spelling burette? A crazy person is using a burette with a gold (Au) end, extruding a 3D wireframe model of a desk (bureau): Bure(tte)+au+crazy ... and hopefully you can remember where the final "c" goes.

I cannot spell bureau. It trips me up even typing it. Maybe this is the thread that will have finally jammed it into my brain. I'll get back to you in a week or so. :-)

I always think of Jim Carry in Bruce Almighty spelling out

B-E-A-Utiful

Surprisingly it helps with words that have that 'eau' mash of vowels.

Re: The Gyllenhaal Experiment

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Did some programming for analysis of the Middle English Dialect project way back when. This was based on corpus of 320 words as they were spelt by scribes in different parts of the UK. Often the same scribe would spell a word 3 or 4 different ways in the same document. But there were regional variations etc. Fascinating topic. Helped to draw maps like:

http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/ihd/elalme/elalme_frames.html

http://www.amc.lel.ed.ac.uk/?page_id=563

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A fun dataset (how many people cannot spell using Google's text box) but a couple of points 1. I could not recognise my first picture so had to use the speech tab - which I swear sounds like Mark McGuires (with the S). So I add the extra S and of course get it "wrong". I know I am being picky but ... Secondly, how much of this dataset is Google being too good at correcting our spelling - I know I regularly send googl…

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