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In programming certain word choices are valuable in this way. It's sad that pairs like true/false, good/bad, first/rest, and left/right are unequal length. But there are nice pairs like old/new, head/tail, fast/slow, same/diff, and right/wrong, which can help with create natural vertical alignment throughout a function.
Row/col works but width/height doesn't, alas.
Can LLMs nowadays do that for us? Rewriting the text so that it fits perfectly into the paragraph?
There's a similar anecdote Gillian Anderson recently revealed during an interview on the X-Files , saying Chris Carter had an OCD-like habit to write dialog to conform to certain text layout preferences (no widows[1]) in the script, which made for the show's distinctive style of dialog cadence. 1 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widows_and_orphans
I thought it was just my own OCD.
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> "missils" would be more phonetic Only for Americans. In British English, it's "MISS isle", and "MISSul" is a church book. I'm not Christian and I am not sure of exactly what's in a _missal_ but it's prayers or something. I do not know if American English even has missals. They're old fashioned things these days, I think. But in my dialect, "missile" and "missal" are two different words with 2 different sounds, whic…
I was responding to the framing of the parent comment that suggested "missles", which already essentially ignored that pronunciation.
"how people pronounce words ending in that"
You did not restrict which people you were talking about, and that's a critical omission. Nobody in my daily life, in real life where I live or on TV or radio, would ever say "missal" when they meant "missile".