Spell checking should be a default feature in IDEs. I've seen teammates struggle to find the source of a bug, only to find a spelling error in a variable or configuration setting. I'm not the greatest touch typist, and my IDE catches double letters, missing letters, reversed letters and other mistakes all the time.
I remember an old demo that would play a loop of the chorus of I Say a Little Prayer through the PC speaker. It was hard to believe that the speaker could be pushed to such limits.
"a disgruntled populace just wants it all to go away."
The same thing happened in Brazil. Back to back Olympics and World Cup, billions spent on single-purpose, once-used infrastructure, while the economy was in shambles. No one but the government wanted any of it - okay, maybe the World Cup, but definitely not the Olympics.
Doesn’t this happen in almost every country that hosts the Olympics? If my city were proposed as a site for the games I would oppose it as much as possible.
I was actually living in London at the time, and I remember it being pretty shambolic (the buildings weren't ever finished, for example), but if you have your national media on side, I think Olympics can work for you. Hardly anybody actually goes to the event itself, so public perception is basically dependent just on how critical the media is.
Portuguese has a lot of interesting stuff going on with nasal consonants. It always strikes me that they go for writing <m> in places other romance languages chose <n>. This also hints that over the history of latin languages, nasal consonants may have been kinda flexible.
I used to look at those topics and think in terms of what is "more like Latin", but at one point I realized... All of them are probably accurately capturing some form of the history of Latin, and there isn't right or wrong.
For words ending in "L" as well ... "som" (sound), "Brasil" (Brazil), the last consonants are dropped. Words ending in R like "lar" (home) often get a gutteralized or dropped R.
#1 is the usual definition of perfect pitch, and is the most useful. I have heard #2 and #3 referred to as "pitch memory".
There is also a rare #0, which is the ability to identify pitches that are out of tune by a small number of cents. This is the least useful type of perfect pitch, and can render people unable to truly enjoy music. I know a musician who is like that. To him, everyone in the band is out of tune all the time.
Another possibility is that companies try to guess your email address. I recently got an email thanking me for buying a lawnmower that I never bought. The buyer's mailing address was in the email, so I sent him a letter. He replied saying he's "old school", and doesn't have an email account. He has no idea how the manufacturer got my email address, as he had left the email address field blank when filling out the warranty form. The only explanation I can come up with is that they just guessed it based on first and last name.
