Typo on a book cover
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- Amicus
Shouldn't it be Learnt... past tense yeah?
So, even the great Sagmeister still has something to learn. :)
Forgive me if I am wrong.
- uncle_helv0
Perhaps he's been ironic?!
- i think you'll find it's 'ironimical'indian_pole
- well said indian pole, or should i call you indian poleS!jimzyk
- Orbit0
I don't believe it should be 'learnt'. He's American and American English leans more towards use of learned. Learnt is bordering on olde english though it is still used frequently.
- < What he said.MrOneHundred
- +1pylon
- iz american. you guys never learnt ya englishes in grade shoolzbaseline_shift
- Corvo20
Who is that? Cthulhu?
- Orbit0
One thing he's clearly learned though is how to use a radius gradient across multiple vector shapes.
- alex0
Sagmeister is actually from Austria.
- typist0
orbit
he is american?
- Orbit0
I don't know if he's American or not, but he lives and works in America doesn't he, and HE DAMN WELL OUGHT TO ABIDE BY THEIR RULES.
Bloody grammer terrorist.
- MrOneHundred0
It's all a means to an end for Sagmeister. I stand by him.
- Often?Orbit
- Twice.MrOneHundred
- You stand by him twice?
Thats quite a profound statement in its own way. Very zen.Orbit
- jimzyk0
should be:
the things what i has learned you to learn me.
- desmo0
i love the word WHILST. oh you brits with your crazy english language
- Orbit0
No no no it should be
A book about how I have learned up some stuff and what that stuff is.
- itstimefortea0
the dictionary tells me 'learned' is fine. 'learnt' is mostly a british thing. if the dictionary tells me then it is so. but what do i know.
- i sent out 2 jobs recently with typos. they scare me.itstimefortea
- juhls0
Adding just a "-t" as a suffix instead of "-ed" is more of a British thing, yes. Either one feels awkward to me, but the "t" is more strange.
- designbot0
lol @ learnt.
In America, nobody uses that word. Guess it probably depends on where the author is from.
- ESPtype0
he has it right.... if he was from England, then it would be right to use learnt.
- mistermik0
both fine
one implies continued learning growth,
one implies you have learnt everything you want to learn.word.
- Ambushstudio0
What's up with drawing on Stefan's face huh? must be the Lou Reed thing, I did this a few years ago...
- rip again? need a thread for that?
typist - oh cime on dude, really...Ambushstudio
- comeAmbushstudio
- rip again? need a thread for that?
- flashbender0
they still use "treble" over here instead of triple. That shit cracks me up.
- magnificent_ruin0
learned would be my choice
- bulletfactory0
i agree - not a typo