Typos and The Internet

[Scotty_ffgamer]

I should say that the bit I wrote about bringing up the mistakes in other people's writing wasn't aimed at anyone here. It's just something that always bugs me when I see it elsewhere.

[Pike]

Typos don't bother me. Nor do most spelling or grammar errors. I make mistakes all the time myself and I write for a living.

Related note: people who get all up in arms about the proper use of the word "literally" grind my gears considerably more than the actual misuse of the word does.

I don't know, I guess I just don't care.

[escobert]

It's not like people have their own personal editors to comb through everything they type.

Yes they do, it's called proof reading before you click that little submit button I had three typos in that sentence I fixed before I clicked that little button!

[Shiny]

Its pretty bad when people hav typoes and bad grammer on the intranet.

[blackmage_nuke]

Typing with improper spelling or grammar doesnt bother me in a casual chat or forum online the same way that speaking with improper pronunciation doesnt bother me in a real life conversation as long as I can understand what you're saying.

intranet.

I can't tell how many layers of joke this is.

[Kalevala]

Speaking of typos at work...

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[krissy]

I really can't stand it when I encounter typos and/or (unclear, pick one) improper English while reading. I have an instinctive need to correct it... (space after ellipsis) 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 (do you mean couldn't) 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 (run on sentence, revise).

How about you? Do typos/grammar/ending (use commas for lists) a sentence with a preposition get on your nerves? Are you careful when you type to use proper english?

Aaaand go.

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[Ayen]

Typos only bug me when the person is in the process of correcting my grammar. Otherwise, I don't care. I actually get a pretty good laugh when proofing my own work and seeing all the mistakes I made.

[Pumpkin]

If I dislike the person it bothers me, if I don't then it doesn't

Like my ex or sharky's ex typing how r u can go suck a cow

My friend typing it is like "eh, we're not in class and I know she knows how to spell you"

I am ~*~BIASED~*~ in my judgements of others

[Dat Matt]

Pretty much everything that i post on the internet contains a typo or incorrect grammar. This is even worse when I'm on my phone.

I never use text speech though. Really annoys me when people use letters like U and R to make words like You and Are.

[Lone Wolf Leonhart]

Correcting trivial spelling mistakes on the internet always comes off as a desire to be 'wittier than thou' as opposed to actually caring about grammar, and that's why it's annoying to people.

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[Dat Matt]

A saw a post on facebook that the Date format is sequential for the last time in our lives. 12/13/2014 will be the last time we see dates in this order. Of course this doesn't apply for us brits who do the more sensible format of DDMMYYYY, smallest at the left, largest at the right and all.

She responded "And yeah I know how to Wright the date in this country".

I WANNA FIX IT

[Pumpkin]

Yeah I hate the MMDDYY thing. It confuses me to no end, since they use it here all the time and I'm used to DDMMYY.

Especially when I see a date like 06/07/14

I'm like "July 6th or June 7th?!?!?!?!!?"

I still date my paperwork DDMMYY though. Take that American paperwork

[Sephex]

>MFW amerifats calls poppy-bang-kill-tubes guns

[Bubba]

Yeah, I'm like shion. It bothers me more when it's someone I don't like.

Typos shouldn't bother anyone really as it's just a mistake. Bad grammar though does get on my nerves. I've been guilty of it myself in the past so I suppose it is a little hypocritical. There really is no excuse for getting there/their/they're/to/too/two wrong. Also, its inexcusable to get its and it's wrong and people should be condemned for that to.