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    Typos and The Internet

    I really can't stand it when I encounter typos and/or improper english while reading. I have an instinctive need to correct it...I don't know why I'm this way. Verbe tense disagreement is particularly irritating to me.

    In the age of the Internet, this becomes something akin to a debilitating illness, since people could give two smurfs about their english when they post online, and many people are typing on a phone, where (once more) two smurfs could, could be given.

    How bout you? Do typos/grammar/ending a sentence with a preposition get on your nerves? Are you careful when you type to use proper english?

    Aaaand go.
    Last edited by Spooniest; 12-10-2014 at 01:56 PM.

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    Funny you make a post about typos and you made one.

    No, they don't bother me. People should be allowed to write however they like. Unless it's in articles, there is nothing more infuriating to me than a 'serious' news site taking on staff who can't spell well.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Lockharted View Post
    Funny you make a post about typos and you made one.
    God damn it.

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    I'm not sure this is so much OCD as just being anal retentive...

    But no, not really. Misspellings and super bad grammar bother me much more than typos. I make typos all the time and just don't care.
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    Jinx you are absolutely smurfing insane. Never change.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jinx View Post
    I'm not sure this is so much OCD as just being anal retentive...
    Aren't those the same thing?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spooniest View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Jinx View Post
    I'm not sure this is so much OCD as just being anal retentive...
    Aren't those the same thing?
    No.
    Quote Originally Posted by Fynn View Post
    Jinx you are absolutely smurfing insane. Never change.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jinx View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Spooniest View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Jinx View Post
    I'm not sure this is so much OCD as just being anal retentive...
    Aren't those the same thing?
    No.
    Why not?

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    Because Obsessive COMPULSIVE Disorder is marked by compulsive actions that often have little to do with the issue at hand, and their rituals come from a place of fear and anxiety (usually like, "Oh, if I don't do this a certain number of times, my dad will die.") It's not always about germs and everything being in a precise or something.

    Like, the information is out there for you to read up on, Spooniest. I believe in you and the power of Google.
    Quote Originally Posted by Fynn View Post
    Jinx you are absolutely smurfing insane. Never change.

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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_retentiveness

    One seems to be an archaic (Freudian) term for the other...

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    Thread title is now typos and the internet, let's get back on track and talk about the topic at hand. Thank you!

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    I become overwhelmingly annoyed when I post something with a typo in it - especially if it is on Facebook or Twitter.

    I don't really care is others have simple typos or grammatical errors as l0ng as it ai'nt liek dis.
    Do you Wanna Build a Snowman?

    -= It doesn't have to be a snowman... =-

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    typos don't bug me since I make them all the time. But, knowing your there, their and they're, two, to and too and stuff like are essential.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lockharted View Post
    Funny you make a post about typos and you made one.
    More than one.

    https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/owlprint/607/

    Ending a sentence with a preposition isn't always wrong. It can be, but that's not always the case. Fact: It's not actually an English rule but a form of linguistic fetishism resulting from remnants of Latin structure influencing certain kinds of stuck-up grammarians.

    Also, English should be capitalized, even as an adjective.

    Certain things are irksome, but in most contexts they're also easy to ignore. It's really only serious articles with spelling or grammar mistakes (not just typos) that bug me. I let myself slack off in forums and such, though that wasn't always the case.

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    Why does anyone smurfing care? Typing errors happen. People are not born knowing how to spell every word in the world, nor should they be expected to. It bothers me much more when people make a big deal about "improper English", whether it is the mispronunciation/incorrect spelling/adopting new uses of language. The majority of my friends are lawyers, librarians and English majors, and they loooooove to snarkily correct people's tiny little errors - the next time I see this happening IRL, I'm going to yell at the lot of them. It may not be my preference how something is phrased, but people should be listened to for what they are saying, not put down because their language is not technically perfect. Also, if you're anything like me, you'll just automatically correct any errors as you are reading them - lucky for some.
    Last edited by Calliope; 12-11-2014 at 12:31 AM. Reason: "Snarky" was the word I was looking for, thanks Sarah.

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    It bugs me when people point out typos in something not in a professional instance, or between private letters or emails of correspondence or something like that. Someone did this to me once in a private correspondence at work in a particularly snarky and rude way, and I lost all respect for them for it.

    I think that typos in a professional situation are pretty unacceptable, but other than that, human beings err, and so do the contemporary technology devices many of us post on these days.

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