quite = quiet

[africangrey]

Why are people using quite to described faint sound level, am I am missing something here? I often see in various boards using quite to describe sound level of fan or pump what does that mean. I can definitely understand misspell words but quite and quiet sounded so different unlike receive vs. recieve.

[outy]

Why are people using quite to described faint sound level, am I am missing something here? I often see in various boards using quite to describe sound level of fan or pump what does that mean. I can definitely understand misspell words but quite and quiet sounded so different unlike receive vs. recieve.

Most tanks are noisy as hell.

My 210 is pretty quiet, you can barely hear the mp40qd when it spools up in different reef crest modes, and you can hear a little water running through the drain pipes.

It sounds like a small stream and is soothing because its faint. You have to listen for it to hear it.

That is quiet compared to most

[top shelf]

Why are people using quite to described faint sound level, am I am missing something here? I often see in various boards using quite to describe sound level of fan or pump what does that mean. I can definitely understand misspell words but quite and quiet sounded so different unlike receive vs. recieve.

Hate to say it but poor grammer would be my guess, I'll own up to it I'm guilty of it at times. Every so often my phone autocorrects to whatever it wants and I don't always pay attention.

It's about the same as saying a clownfish hosts an anemone when in reality an anemone hosts a clownfish.

[Sk8r]

qui-et has two syllables. Quite, which means 'moderately to very' has only one.

[eder10986]

Hate to say it but poor grammer would be my guess, I'll own up to it I'm guilty of it at times. Every so often my phone autocorrects to whatever it wants and I don't always pay attention.



It's about the same as saying a clownfish hosts an anemone when in reality an anemone hosts a clownfish.



*** grammar ***

[thegrun]

I can handle the chemistry required to maintain a reef tank, but English grammar escapes me!

[DreadCapn]

It's probably less about not knowing the proper word and more about people making typos. Quiet Quite is a fairly easy one to make.

[jewlz]

Hate to have to point this out, but the title to this thread more incorrect than the typo it's referring to.

Quiet ≠ Quite
Quiet != Quite
Quiet ~= Quite
are all ways of saying
Quiet does not equal Quite

Hows that for being pedantic :deadhorse:

[top shelf]

*** grammar ***

See my point exactly lol bad grammar and can't spell.

[d2mini]

Many grammar errors these days are the result of auto correct and the OP not proofing before hitting the send button, not caring, or just missing it.
I type, "thire", auto correct changes it to "there", but I meant to say "their".
Happens all the time.

In the end... who cares enough to start a thread about it in the Reef Discussion forum? :rolleye1:
Move to the lounge.

[djbon]

Some of us, reefers are coming from non-english speaking background. As such, please forgive us for our bad, grammatically incorrect english, whether it's due to auto-correction or we simply do not know how to type in proper english. Typo error could be the culprit as well.

[mcgyvr]

Welcome to an auto-correct world...

[sde1500]

Seriously this requires a post? People make typos, who cares?

[africangrey]

Seriously this requires a post? People make typos, who cares?

I just thought may be quite has replaced quiet in the internet age, as I see quite more often than quiet for describing faint sound level.

Just like ghosting, benching and zombieing for whatever those means.

[hkgar]

What we really want is a tank that is quite quiet and isn't that quaint. Ok, I'll quit.

[ktownhero]

Why are people using quite to described faint sound level, am I am missing something here? I often see in various boards using quite to describe sound level of fan or pump what does that mean. I can definitely understand misspell words but quite and quiet sounded so different unlike receive vs. recieve.

It's not something people "do". It's a typo, and I don't know what threads you've been reading but it's not something I see much.

[ca1ore]

My votive wood bea four auto-concrete.....

[dkeller_nc]

Sadly, it isn't all the fault of auto-correct. A lot of folks don't know, and don't consider correct word usage to be all that important.

Lose, for example, does not have the same meaning as loose, but I see this error very often at work. Generally, I've gotten arguments about whether it matters when I've had to require someone to correct it in a technical report.

[rfgonzo]

OMG I was laughing at this since my 9 yr old just had both words on her spelling test Friday. Happy to say she picked it up quick. Not to change the subject but she also had the goofy word bivalves, I personally had no clue what this word meant, so we looked it up and the definition was ( an aquatic mollusk that has a compressed body enclosed within a hinged shell, such as oysters, clams, and scallops.)