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Tom Rinaldo

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6. LOL, now I'm laughing too

Reply to Bettie (Reply #5)

Fri Feb 1, 2019, 10:22 AM

Feb 2019

Someone somewhere should be writing a newspaper column of the best typos of the day. Spell Check has contributed a lot to that genre. I have lost count of how many hilarious mistakes I have made by absentmindedly accepting the first spelling correction it offers me for a word I got wrong, only to find out later that I inserted another word with a completely different meaning instead.

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