• Coreidan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What in the hell are they using them for? They hold so little data I don’t see how they can even be practical at this point.

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      1 year ago

      10 to one they weren’t, look how oddly this article is phrased. I’d guess there was a rule government offices had to accept floppy discs, have the equipment to read them, but the clients weren’t actually submitting that way anymore.

          • psud@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            10 to 1. Many style guides require numbers lower than 10 to be spelt out. Many people think that what style guides say is “correct”

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              1 year ago

              I will never accept spelt nor smelt, unless we’re talking about grains and ore refining, respectively.

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                1 year ago

                That’s fine. Spelled vs spelt is different regionally in the UK. I was taught “spelled”, I say it as spelled, but more often than not I type it spelt because it’s easier on a glass keyboard

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                  1 year ago

                  Hahaha I can respect that. I do have a pretty big chip on my shoulder when it comes to language, semantics, syntax, whatever, but I will always let it slide if the counter argument is based around instrumental favorability.