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What in bog's name is "fumeric acid" and DMT "fumerate"?

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Entropymancer

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I'm plenty familiar with fumaric acid, and fumarate salts.... but it seems like I see references to "fumerate" much more frequently than fumarate on here these days.

I was wondering if this is a language thing? I know some chemicals are spelled differently in different languages. If that's the source of the widespread references to "fumerate", then I don't have a problem with it. But if it's just a case of rampant misspelling, I think it sort of reflects poorly on the community that the majority of the people asking about and/or consuming DMT fumarate can't even properly spell the chemical they're referring to.
 
I often spell "there" instead of "they're", but hopefully most of the time I spot it and hit the edit button.

As for the "fumeric" thing, I think that is most certainly a spelling mistake rather than a regional thing.
 
Haha yeah I agree Ya, I thought "fumerate" when I read it, was a slang thing like writing "heya!" instead of "Hey you!".
I'm not a native speaker and soon I thought that most english (or english derivatives languages) weren't paying much attention to the spelling.
 
Ya said:
Even more surprising is the fact that many community members, both non-native English speakers and even native English speakers, still haven't realized the difference between "there" "their" and "they're", nor the difference between "your" and "you're".
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For the most part, those are just TYPOS. Because words like "their" and "there" sound identical, they are often located in the same part of the brain, causing people to make typos, people who know exactly the different ( <--a typo which should be "difference" ) between the meanings of those two words. I myself do that ALL THE TIME. And I know those words are not interchangeable, but when typing, it happens and happens to me a lot. My mind things ( <--another typo I caught my hands doing, that word should be "thinks" ) “their”, and then my hands type “there” without me realizing it. This is one typing error that I can’t seem to stop. I do it everyday. I have to proof read my typing in order to catch the mistakes my hands are making on the keyboard. This is a hardwired mistake.

Whoever decided it was OK to have two words in the English language that sound exactly the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings is AN IDIOT!
 
The one that always makes me chuckle is "furmate". I don't know how many times I've seen people repeatedly use it in here, but it always makes me think of gettin' freaky with the housecat.
 
obliguhl said:
Is it really necessary to make threads about typos and missspelled words?
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It’s no more necessary than to make posts questioning the necessity of making threads about typos and misspelled words.

(And misspelled has only 2 s’s.)
 
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