https://www.npr.org/2015/03/12/392568604/dont-you-dare-use-c... Every time we avoid saying "comprised of," the pedants win.
Time to use more "comprised of" in wikipedia.
Wikipedia user edits over 90k uses of “comprised of”
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#12I'm not saying she's wrong, but:
In patent claims, "comprising" and "consisting of" are different:
6,151,604 claim 1 is:
1. A data storage and retrieval system for a computer memory, comprising:
means for configuring said memory according to a logical table, said logical table including: ...
6,151,605 claim 1 is:
1. A method for allowing a software application to access a configuration file, said configuration file comprising data used by said software application, comprising the steps of:
providing a configuration processing library, said configuration processing library comprising ...
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You almost never use "consisting of" in writing claims.
https://patentfile.org/patent-writing-tip-comprises-vs-consi...
Re: Wikipedia user edits over 90k uses of “comprised of”
#13Doing God’s work, fella. This is also a pet peeve of mine.
Your peeve is comprised of people using a word to mean two opposite meanings, as if to make up for flammable and inflammable meaning the same?
Re: Wikipedia user edits over 90k uses of “comprised of”
#14Funny to see this on the front page of HN. I literally just went down this rabbit hole an hour ago from twitter. I found this article to be among the most interesting related commentary...
https://web.archive.org/web/20150214014338/http://chronicle....
Re: Wikipedia user edits over 90k uses of “comprised of”
#15This definitely falls deep into the pedantry zone. Lots of modern English uſage was once wrong and has become normalized. The language doeſn't have an Académie calling the ſhots. It inevitably evolves, warts and all.
I’m still waiting for autocorrect to stop changing “wellbeing” to “well-being”
Re: Wikipedia user edits over 90k uses of “comprised of”
#16This definitely falls deep into the pedantry zone. Lots of modern English uſage was once wrong and has become normalized. The language doeſn't have an Académie calling the ſhots. It inevitably evolves, warts and all.
Sure, but why should people who can’t use the language properly () be an uncontested force in that evolution?
() If we can’t say that “comprised of” is objectively wrong, then what _can_ we say about English? Should we accept “bought” as a legitimate past tense of “bring”? Sometimes people are just making a habitual mistake. It happens to me, too.
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#17The psychology of editors and moderators is fascinating. I see them as being cast from the same mold as bureaucrats. All of them, left to their own devices, will invent work and create obstacles.
It takes constant vigilance to avoid such people taking over a site and driving everyone away.
I also wonder what the correlation is between such people and being on the spectrum: The need for rules, the comfort and predictability of order and consistency and that ability to exercise control or power over something (this last one being applicable to pretty much everyone).
No hate intended here. It’s just musing out loud.
Re: Wikipedia user edits over 90k uses of “comprised of”
#18That whole page is comprised of the most pedantic arguments for what amounts to policing an evolving language
Re: Wikipedia user edits over 90k uses of “comprised of”
#19This definitely falls deep into the pedantry zone. Lots of modern English uſage was once wrong and has become normalized. The language doeſn't have an Académie calling the ſhots. It inevitably evolves, warts and all.
I guess the use of the long s here was intentional, in which case, funny.
Re: Wikipedia user edits over 90k uses of “comprised of”
#20This definitely falls deep into the pedantry zone. Lots of modern English uſage was once wrong and has become normalized. The language doeſn't have an Académie calling the ſhots. It inevitably evolves, warts and all.
And even if there was an Académie, what authority would they have? Eg the French have one, but that doesn't mean they have any moral authority.
Moral, no. But they might influence e.g. textbooks and legal drafting. That ordinateur is not ordinary and l'informatique isn't always very Informative. Unless I am mistaken both English words coming in from the French?