Tony Smith <ajsmith <at> rivernet.com.au> writes:

> Eventually you'll end up with a majority of people agreeing on what a word
> is, even if they spell it wrong.  If you don't get consensus after a while,

So spilling of a living language is established by a democratic process now ? ;-)

> There was (and maybe still is) a similar method commonly used for handling
> data entry years ago.  You'd get two people to type something in, then run a

That is, was and always will be valid. 2-out-of-3 even allows error correction.
Concordance (2 independent readers read the same data) is less useful (no
autmatic correction).

Peter P.

> Tony
> 




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