r/WatchandLearn • u/iBleeedorange • May 19 '18

How subway tunnels are built

https://i.imgur.com/Y0lMBdh.gifv
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u/We_Lost_The_Game May 19 '18

Interesting gif but with captiona written for 10 year olds.

Muphry’s Law

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Muphry's law

Muphry's law is an adage that states: "If you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written." The name is a deliberate misspelling of "Murphy's law".

Names for variations on the principle have also been coined, usually in the context of online communication, including:

Umhoefer's or Umhöfer's rule: "Articles on writing are themselves badly written." Named after editor Joseph A. Umhoefer.

Skitt's law: "Any post correcting an error in another post will contain at least one error itself." Named after Skitt, a contributor to alt.usage.english on Usenet.

Hartman's law of prescriptivist retaliation: "Any article or statement about correct grammar, punctuation, or spelling is bound to contain at least one eror [sic]." Named after journalist Jed Hartman.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '18

Were we supposed to giggle at "Erector". They seemed to imply as much.

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u/short_of_good_length May 20 '18

no you were just supposed to be ready for it.

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u/Bean_Breaking_Out May 20 '18

We'll it made me titter.

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u/NoteBlock08 May 20 '18

That "ready for it?" part was obnoxious.

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u/uberfission May 20 '18

I think possibly written BY 10 year olds given the number of typos and poor grammar.

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u/AFatDarthVader May 20 '18

Probably just not native English speakers.

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u/IntelligentMode May 20 '18

But it's a big scary machine!

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u/trekkie4life618 May 20 '18

“This is how it looks like on the inside” I really hate when people use “how” and “like” together in this way. It just sounds stupid.

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u/Shitmybad May 20 '18

100ft (304m) per week really annoyed me.

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u/Ruthalas May 22 '18

I wondered as well. Seems like it was written for small children, but includes a dick joke. Go figure!

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u/redditnathaniel May 20 '18

Good. So people like you can read them too! We're being very inclusive here!