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Typo alerts
Typo alerts
From the podcast Mac Power Users, episode 760. Stephen Hackett is talking with David Sparks about readers calling attention to typos: “Nine times out of ten that comes with an apology attached, like ‘Oh, hey, I’m sorry, I found this.‘ Thank you for sending them in. We didn’t catch it, we want to be accurate and correct, and there’s nothing worse — I’m sure you’ve had this experience too — where you come across a blog post from eight years ago and there’s a typo in it. That’s been on the Internet for almost a decade, and no one told you. It’s the worst feeling, so thank you for sending those in.”
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Typo alerts
Great typos
Great typos
From Jack Shepherd’s On Words and Up Words: six great typos of history.
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Great typos
In beta
In beta
An all-purpose explanation for typos: the post is in beta.
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In beta
Help wanted
Help wanted
“The statement released Monday by Mrs. Trump was also rife with grammatical errors and typos.”
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Help wanted
A last autocorrection
A last autocorrection
I’m done with iOS and macOS autocorrection, which have messed up my writing again and again. Now on all mistakes will be my own.
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A last autocorrection
Introvert sticklers
Introvert sticklers
Psychology Today reports on a study suggesting that “introverts [are] more likely to be annoyed by typos and grammatical mistakes than extroverts.”
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Introvert sticklers
A message for Shorty
A message for Shorty
“An important email will be arriving shorty.”
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A message for Shorty
g-20.in
g-20.in
Rudolph Giuliani tweeted and forgot to proofread. So now there’s a website: g-20.in.
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g-20.in
Obvious typos
Obvious typos
Seekers of wisdom and truth, finding their way to “How to e-mail a professor.”
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Obvious typos
Steve Jobs at college (and typos)
Steve Jobs at college (and typos)
When Wozniak came to visit, Jobs waved his schedule at him and complained, “They are making me take all these courses.” Woz replied, “Yes, that’s what they do in college.”
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Steve Jobs at college (and typos)
The Oxford typo
The Oxford typo
“Carelessness runs through this biography of Son House; this footnote is just an especially glaring example. Ought a reader to expect more from a university press? From Oxford University Press? I would think so.”
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The Oxford typo
Illinois Supreme Court typo
Illinois Supreme Court typo
A great typo in the Illinois Supreme Court ruling that just put Rahm Emanuel back on the ballot in Chicago
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Illinois Supreme Court typo