You know you’re a nerd when….

You know you’re a nerd when you use vi/perl substitution commands to fix your spelling mistakes in an instant-messenger chat:

mlq: I learnt all I need to know from reading the C# lang spec from top to bottom… dunno if that’s your think (it’s mine *sigh*)
mlq: s/think/thing/
cm: mine too – *sigh*
cm: I’ll have some if that tonight
cm: s/if/of/

*sigh*

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  • http://fishbowl.pastiche.org Charles Miller

    Wow. Doesn’t everyone do that?

  • http://www.simongbrown.com Simon Brown

    Cool – I thought that it was just me! I use bash-style command line substition like ^think^thing. ;-)

  • http://cardboard.nu Alan Green


    s/you/I/gi
    s/re/m/
    s/ when.././

    hmmm…. that about says it all.

  • http://voicenet.com/~maggie Maggie Leber

    Using substring substituition has been a time-honored tradition in most of IRC for years and years now…especially on the more tech-ish channels.

  • http://www.fnogol.de/ Philipp Meier

    Yes, yes, yes. And I always wanted a gnome-jabber / irc / gaim plugin to automatically "corret" the previous message if someone sends a matching re.