WTF... spelling correction on the phone has changed "lossy" to "lossless" in most places
What I meant to say was (correction in bold):
"When using MP3 or other
lossy formats, and you have to convert to something else in another 20 years, you will still end up with a lossless format anyway. Otherwise, you'd be losing quality because of going from
lossy to
lossy. So, if you convert any
lossy files to FLAC now, you'll be 20 years ahead of your time, and you can switch to any lossless format you care to."
Rant: I'm going to disable spelling check on my phone as well. It actually makes people stupid with regard to writing Dutch. Did I ever rant about the "English Disease" in Dutch? Using spaces where there shouldn't be any in Dutch, as if writing English, that is. Like this:
English: computer screen
Dutch: computerscherm (NOT computer scherm)
If I type a word on my phone which it doesn't know, it automatically replaces it with the closest equivalent. So, if it didn't know "computerscherm", it would replace it with "computer scherm", making people think the latter is the correct spelling, which it is NOT.
Using spaces even leads to different meanings sometimes. Let's use the Dutch word for an "old cheese factory":
oude kaas fabriek: WRONG
oude kaasfabriek: An old factory that makes cheese
oudekaasfabriek: A factory that makes old cheese
Or the word for "long distance runner":
lange afstands loper: WRONG
lange afstandsloper: A tall runner running distances of some unspecified length
lange-afstandsloper: A runner who runs long distances. (This can be written without the dash, but when two vowels follow one another, the dash is often used for clearness.)
Some people are even going as far as to split up words that aren't even split up in English...
English: keyboard
Dutch: toetsenbord
???: toetsen bord
This, and the D/T spelling mistakes (many people just guess with that one) are my single biggest pet peeves with regard to spelling in Dutch.
Some D/T examples:
Er gebeurt iets. (Something is happening.)
Er is iets gebeurd. (Something has happened.)
Ik zwem graag. (I like to swim.)
Hij zwem
t graag. (He likes to swim.)
Ik houd van jou. (I love you.)
Hij houd
t van jou. (He loves you.)
Some people just guess. They sometimes even write "Hij hout van jou" ("He wood you..."), or write some crap such as "gebeurdt" which isn't even possible.