Typos. Must be some real offensive shit for some.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by Spazito (a host of the General Discussion forum).

Apologies. I am more than a few years old amd my fingers often misbehave.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216503979#post6

[Journeyman]

1. I set type for a weekly newspaper while in college . . .

My most memorable typo occurred in a profile of an elderly woman in town.

The line was supposed to say she collected antique clocks.

It went out to 87,000 people.

[yonder]

13. +1. Good one.

Though the nature of that error is only a guess.

[CurtEastPoint]

18. Had a manager berate everyone for bypassing her authority for approval for some piece of

hardware so she fired off a message that said, "Going forward, all suck requests must come through me." About 5 minutes later she sent an edited version and said something like, 'All right ha ha ha ...'

[Hekate]

30. So that was you, was it? LOL

I was a proofreader in a print shop for awhile after college. I get the impression that it’s one of those jobs that vanished in the computer age, but I still proof all my posts to catch typos. Auto-correct drove me bats until I turned it off.

I try to just pass by those who don’t manage to do that. There’s a lot of reasons, and one is certainly age (raises hand). Using an iPad is very convenient, but has its drawbacks, and one is a small keyboard that has me doing two-finger typing.

Everyone has a bad day, both as a reader and a writer. For my first husband, being dyslexic made every day that way — editing some of his college papers made me understand, once and for all, that whatever was going on with him (there was no diagnosis in those days) it was unrelated to innate intelligence.

So when I’m feeling irritable as a reader at DU, I just try to pass by typo-blemished posts without comment. Don’t always succeed, but I try. (Word-salad is a different matter.)

[Delmette2.0]

2. You are in good company.

I can hardly type with my new phone because it is just a little narrower than the last phone. Also, I can confuse spell check.

[Croney]

3. I'm probably older than you, and when I'm not sure how to spell a name, I Google it.

My own name is often misspelled even when people have it right in front of them on an email or message, and it can be annoying.

[MineralMan]

21. +100

[Bernardo de La Paz]

39. Wise to check like that. And to copy-paste if one blames "fat fingers". . . .nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Typos & fingers are not the problem. Deficit of proofreading is a problem

Everybody makes typos.
Everybody can fix typos.

Not everybody proofreads or proofreads enough or proofreads as well as would be best.

Some people think that typos don't matter and so they don't proofread just on principles. They are either mistaken or egoistical. If they are mistaken, they don't realize that the few seconds they save readers over cognitive dissonance is multiplied by the number of readers and greatly outweighs the minute for proofreading and fixing. Those who are egoistical don't care because they think their time is more valuable than all their readers put together or they are writing for their own vanity not their readers sake.

Everybody can proofread but they have to want to.

I hope everybody would want to proofread, but I don't expect compliance from egoists.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

8. Move to Lollypo[ land.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Well, we know where VIPs like you stand with respect to readers. . . . . nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. Your personal attack means you are out of points. Readers will form their own opinions

You seem unable to address the points so you descend.

[BlackSkimmer]

23. I pointed out he spelled Zelensky's name wrong twice yesterday.

As did other posters. I also was personally attacked.

I think it’s only basic respect to get a person’s name right. “Zelazky” didn’t even look like Zelensky. Not did the second attempt.

Now posting this? Guess he’s still sore lol.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

31. Only one taking real offense is the OP

Sore because he had two posts removed. I didn't alert on either one.

I agree with your point about respect.

[BlackSkimmer]

37. I didn't either.

I never understand when people have to post an aggrieved thread about something that happened in another thread.

I’ve had my share of hides, and I don’t believe I ever posted a thread on it.

Seen it quite often here though.

[MineralMan]

17. Oops!

[MineralMan]

15. You might want to check the title of your reply.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

20. And

... every post of his in this thread including the OP, either title or text.

[FakeNoose]

14. I feel the same way, my friend

However we are a distinct minority among poor spellers and non-proofreaders.

My standard procedure is to proofread it, click the "Preview" button and proofread again. Fix anything that might be incorrect. Then I click on "Post my rely" and proofread it AGAIN. It's still possible to correct something even after it has been posted. Just click on the "Edit my post" button and fix the offending error.

It only takes a small amount of diligence to save a lot of embarrassment later.

[dpibel]

34. Doncha hate when this happens?

"Post my rely"

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

5. Please cut us older fucks some slack, You will not like us whe we're angry.

[obamanut2012]

27. Why are you replying to yourself?

[BlackSkimmer]

38. He seems to be threatening himself too!

[Torchlight]

6. After I hit a certain age

I realized that more often than not, people nagging me about the benign and the inconsequential were really doing it for their own sake rather than mine.

Democritus wrote that "magnanimity consists in enduring tactlessness with mildness". You are quite magnanimous. Don't sweat the small stuff.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. After I hit a certain age (young in life) I realized the counter aphorism is important

Details matter, particularly if you care about readers as much as yourself.

If not, then what the hell, what are readers for?

[Torchlight]

10. I allow for difference between the formal and colloquial.

Being led to make inferences isn't a big deal to me; but I'm a pretty easy going guy and I don't really sweat the small stuff.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. Absolutely. Informal and colloquial can be used to great effect or are appropriate at times. . . nt

[TheBlackAdder]

19. Linguistics is successful if the message conveyed can be understood by the recipient.

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I'm sure you've seen those posts were almost every word is typed wrong, yet the mind resolves the meaning.

I type on 3 different keyboards throughout the day, two laptops and one desktop. Typos are a given.
Even when I proofread a sentence, sometimes I see what I think I typed instead of what I did type.

It pisses me off because there are times I'll write a sentence and reread it only to say,
"Where the fuck did that come from?"


People will read what you type and either correct the error automatically and move on, as the sentence
conveys a line of thought or they'll get all bent. Instead of gently making you aware of the error, they'll
get butt-hurt and take it personally.

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[questionseverything]

22. I really enjoy your post, don't pay attention to jerks

[MineralMan]

24. I clicked the link in your opening post.

I see your post was meant as a reply to me in that other thread. Interesting.

So, since you're writing to me directly, sort of, I'll reply:

First, it was unclear what your other original post was about, due to the misspelling of Zelensky's name.

Then, before anyone had a chance to reply to your post, you posted again, as the first reply in the thread, asking why nobody had responded to your original post. The reply linked by you in this original thread was my answer about why nobody had replied.

Then, finally, you changed the spelling of that name by editing the title of your original post. But, instead of correcting the spelling, you misspelled it even more extensively. My take on that, given that the correct spelling is everywhere to see, is that you made an error even worse out of petulance from being corrected.

I'm 76 years old. I proofread my posts, because I sometimes make typos, and dislike doing so. I'm especially careful about people's names, and even more so when the name is a prominent one in the news. I do not wish to appear to be ignorant or careless.

So, there's my response to your linking to a post of mine in a previous thread on DU.

ETA: Never mind. I see that you are no longer able to reply in your own thread, once again.

[questionseverything]

25. Ummm I believe his name has 2 ys at the end

?

[obamanut2012]

29. Both one or two ys is acceptable

[MineralMan]

32. That depends on who is doing the transliteration.

I've explained that in detail in another thread:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216507991

[obamanut2012]

28. Yeah, he spelled it even more wrong on purpose

Mocking the name of a Jewish President trying to keep his country in one piece is just.... bad.

[MineralMan]

33. Yes.

Petulance.

[obamanut2012]

35. Yup

The correct word.

[dpibel]

36. Then again, you've spelt it wrong

Your post says:

"First, it was unclear what your other original post was about, due to the misspelling of Zelinsky's name."

And that spelling of the name is one I've never seen, nor is it on your helpful list in your linked post.

Edited to add:

Yowza! You actually said this, in the same post:

"I'm 76 years old. I proofread my posts, because I sometimes make typos, and dislike doing so. I'm especially careful about people's names, and even more so when the name is a prominent one in the news. I do not wish to appear to be ignorant or careless."

So good.

[MineralMan]

44. See. I make mistakes, too.

But, I correct them when I'm corrected. As you can see above.

[BlackSkimmer]

41. Well said.

Thank you.

[obamanut2012]

26. It is human to make a typo or a misspelling

I do it all the time, including on here.

But, how can you not understand that is disrespectful to not spell President Zelenskyy's name correctly, or at least basically correctly? Especially when it was pointed out to you TWICE, and you literally just made his name even more misspelled, and attacked the folks who told you it was wrong.

Laziness or error the first time, disrespectful the next two times, and now we have this OP.

[BlackSkimmer]

40. This. nt

[PatSeg]

42. As I get older, I make a lot of mistakes,

though I do put a lot of effort into getting it right. That said, I see a lot of misspelled names and words here and most people don't make a big deal about it. People need to lighten up. Life is too short to nitpick other people's grammar.

[BlackSkimmer]

45. He spelled President Zelensky's name wrong.

When it was pointed out, he changed it to an even more egregious misspelling.

It wasn’t a silly grammatical mistake.

[Spider Jerusalem]

43. You attempted to correct it and didn't despite being told how it's spelled?

That's not a typo, that's more like deliberate not-caring.

[Spazito]

46. *LOCKING*

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