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Labels: ben zimmer, cupertino, OUP, wordnet posted by John McGrath @ 2: 25 PM
The Cupertino Effect 2007
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Labels: ben zimmer, cupertino, OUP, wordnet posted by John McGrath @ 2: 25 PM 0 Comments
Archive 2007-11-01 2007
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THE WOLVES ARE CIRCLING cupertino these days, fangs gleaming as they savor the dazed and stumbling form of Apple Computer.
A Quick Rx For Apple 2008
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There are currently two known types of “computer assisted errors,” or CAEs, as Carroll calls them: the “clbuttic mistake,” which occurs when an obscenity filter replaces a word it deems vulgar, and the “cupertino effect,” which occurs when a spell-checker automatically replaces the right word with an incorrect choice.
The ���Clbuttic Mistake��� and Others Leave Proofreaders with Work to Do 2008
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I'm sure many long meetings in a bland windowless conference room in the bowels of cupertino took place where Apple engineers battled product managers and product marketing execs.
MyAppleMenu 2008
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May be something on the lines of "pirates of cupertino".
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We get our lavash from Trader Joe's ... we avoid the lavash from a certain unnamed "whole"some foods store in cupertino ... they're stale.
Egg Curry 2007
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By the way, I read an article, where author is worried about your heir to creativity at cupertino who is the prince waiting in the wings after El Jobso?
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Fanboys would be posting it on every blog as the second coming of christ. redmond has some fight left, cupertino boys. reply
Microsoft Announces Surface Computer Duncan Riley 2005
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Those plans are available for download on Cupertino's website, cupertino.org.
News - latimes.com 2011
bilby commented on the word cupertino
The Cupertino Effect is a wonderful thing, just ask the EU.
November 21, 2007
sionnach commented on the word cupertino
See cupertino effect for an example.
November 21, 2007
bilby commented on the word cupertino
I've seen the examples ... luvverly!
November 21, 2007
kewpid commented on the word cupertino
Apple Inc.
January 10, 2008
rolig commented on the word cupertino
This seems to be, serendipitously, a wonderfully apt name for those fanciful flights created by inobservant (or simply lazy) devotees of spell-check programs, considering that St. Joseph of Cupertino "was said to have been remarkably unclever, but prone to miraculous levitation, and intense ecstatic visions that left him gaping," according to the Wikipedia entry (as of 20 July 2008, at 1 am CET), which seems to be citing Angelo Pastrovicchi's 1980 biography of the saint.
July 20, 2008
rolig commented on the word cupertino
For a couple of current political examples, from AP, see Barrack Abeam and John moccasin.
July 29, 2008
dontcry commented on the word cupertino
Is there a mini cupertino effect?
July 29, 2008
plethora commented on the word cupertino
A friend of mine ran spell check through her A Streetcar Named Desire essay and unwittingly allowed it to change all the instances of Blanche to Blaise. To make matters worse, it went unnnoticed until the teacher handed it back with question marks all over it and a rather verbose comment at the end.
July 29, 2008
bilby commented on the word cupertino
"Compton, a lifetime church member and mother of two from Cupertino, Calif., believes some Mormons fear voicing opinions that contradict church leaders and lead to them being ostracized in their congregations, called wards."
- 'Mormons take gay union issue to the Internet', msnbc.com, cited 22 Aug 2008.
August 23, 2008