The mysteries of paintballing

[sagehen]

>At 9/30/2006 08:52 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
>>Yes, this looks like a spellchecker artifact. Most likely the
>>misspelling was "dentified" -- MS Word suggests "identified",
>>"dandified", and "denitrified". Another word processing program might
>>rank "denitrified" first.
>>
>>By the way, this has been dubbed "the Cupertino effect" by European
>>Union translators:
>>
>>http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002911.html
>
>Amusing; thanks, Ben.  So, remembering the earlier "orthodentist"
>discussion, I tried Word on "orthodentist" and
>"orthodentify|fied".  Quel disappointment.
>
>Joel
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Is it possible that "denitrified" is a reference (correctly or incorrectly
named) to a kind of skin test to identify the  hands  that had fired guns,
in case there was some dispute about this?
AM


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