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Are we OK now? We all make mistakes.
:I'm taking back what I said above. But the points are these: one, we simply cannot make up stuff out of thin air; that is called lying, and it has no place here or anywhere else for any reason. And two, we cannot take a spelling error and turn it into a major catastrophe. It's simple human nature to make mistakes, and that includes something as mundane as a written word. It doesn't take much to correct it. [[User:Karajou|Karajou]] 03:06, 1 June 2015 (EDT)
:I'm taking back what I said above. But the points are these: one, we simply cannot make up stuff out of thin air; that is called lying, and it has no place here or anywhere else for any reason. And two, we cannot take a spelling error and turn it into a major catastrophe. It's simple human nature to make mistakes, and that includes something as mundane as a written word. It doesn't take much to correct it. [[User:Karajou|Karajou]] 03:06, 1 June 2015 (EDT)
::Well, not surprisingly I was badly outclassed by your linguistic wit, though I did get the "ajar" reference, and I almost got the "gate / door both swing on hinges" reference.
::The reason for the Googling was that I know that "gait" means a style of walking, and was 99% sure that that was the word that was supposed to be used. But 99% isn't good enough when I'm way outside of my area of expertise; perhaps I don't really know what "gait" means. So I Googled the two phrases, expecting to find many hits with "gait" and only a very small number with "gate", the latter just being the Conservapedia article and maybe a couple of completely random things. The first part of the hypothesis turned out to be correct—351 hits for "gait". But "gate" got a surprisingly large number of hits. They claimed it was 42, though only 11 were showing.
::The first screenful of hits had 4 for Conservapedia (I've fixed them all) and 2 for the others. Scrolling down, and clicking "next", got the other 5. I didn't go through all the others, but I looked at just enough of them to see something really weird going on. There are a few references to something about climate change causing sea otters in Port Heiden, Alaska to be starving. They are going up on dry land, with a "rolling gate". It seems that when you post something on a blog, it gets splattered around the internet, with many of the exact same phrases.
::When I clicked on the "If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included." thing, it went up from 11 to 23, but still not 42. I will never understand what Google thinks it is doing.
::So that's what happened. All over a trivial spelling error. I think all 3 of us took it too seriously. But at least I learned what "zygodactyl" means. [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 00:47, 2 June 2015 (EDT)