HDDVD FAQ: a minor correction

[Gameshow Host]

Just a minor gramattical correction to the FAQ:

The word "playback" is used as a verb, when it is actually only a noun.

For example, the FAQ says: "Can my computer playback high definition DVDs?" but "playback" is only a noun meaning "the process of playing something", so the sentence should actually say "Can my computer play back high definition DVDs?"

To clarify why this sentence is wrong: it would be like saying "His gunshot me in the back" or "The helicopter will touchdown on the landing pad." or "The radiation will fallout of the sky".

[SMEG]

Just a minor gramattical correction to the FAQ:

The word "playback" is used as a verb, when it is actually only a noun.

For example, the FAQ says: "Can my computer playback high definition DVDs?" but "playback" is only a noun meaning "the process of playing something", so the sentence should actually say "Can my computer play back high definition DVDs?"

To clarify why this sentence is wrong: it would be like saying "His gunshot me in the back" or "The helicopter will touchdown on the landing pad." or "The radiation will fallout of the sky".

well that was a waste of my eyesight

[LT. Columbo]

well that was a waste of my eyesight

[admin]

Thanks Gameshow Host, I'll make the correction in the next update. I will lookout for more of the same types of mistakes while I'm doing the update.

[toomanycats]

So would it be, "Thanks game show host---I will look out ----mistakes will I'm am up dating", or am I reading too much into this. Ordoesitreallymatterthatmuch.

[admin]

Seriously though, I still have to thank Gameshow Host for pointing out the error, which I will fix in the next release. That particular section of the FAQ was written very quickly (in point form first and then expanded out) and there are lots of mistakes and incorrect assumptions in there. Still, I did run it through the M$ Word grammar checker, and you'd think it would pick up something like this. Lesson of the day: don't trust M$ Word.

[blutach]

What was that little ditty?

"I have a spell chequer
It came with my pea see"

And it goes on for ages in this vein.

Regards