Jules. Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 Does any one else have the same problem with typos that I have?? For some reason as I type now in the text box I find it really hard to spot my typos whan I read it back, but if I preview my post I find it much easier to spot them when the type is per the forum. 99 times out of a 100 I preview what I have written, & you can guarantee a huge typo when I don't preview, & I don't like doing loads of edits to my posts later! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 I'm terrible these days - I seem to have dyslexic fingers ..... and I cannot type 'th' - it always comes out as 'ht' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 I'm teh same, have to keep going back over my post to correct teh tehs (makes me sound like a reet lancy lass ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ali-s Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 I have seen a typo I made in a post in the gardening bit today I am in a can't be bothered mood so it is staying I didn't preview the post which I sometimes do. I don't usually spot typos in the text box but if I preview them they stand out a mile Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 Me too, I blame it on being tired or in too much of a hurry. Being rubbish at typing doesn't help either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 Me too. I have to correct them days later if I spot them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xChicken04x Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 I always write "ahve" instead of "have" and "teh" instead of "the" and "ans" instead of "and" its very anoying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 I am always doing typos. Chickens is one I struggle with - it always comes out as chicknes . For some reason "form" always ends up as "forum" too . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 My worst is like which comes out as liek. I've given up proof reading myself. My time online is too precious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted August 14, 2007 Share Posted August 14, 2007 When the forum was still in its infancy, Kate and I used to correct people's spelling and typos - no time now though, and I'm probably one of the worst Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze Posted August 14, 2007 Share Posted August 14, 2007 Maybe I should stick sic at the end of all my posts and cover myself. sic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gallina Posted August 14, 2007 Share Posted August 14, 2007 That wouldn't work. "Sic" means you meant to type what you typed, and you don't want people to think it was a typing error. It is just Latin for "thus", but Latin is so beautifully concise; the English alternative would be: "You might think that what I just typed looks wrong, but that is either (1) how it was in the original text I am quoting from or (2) how I spell a name, even if you think it should be spelt differently." I always correct my errors, but I like to do it quickly before anyone has seen them so that the correction line doesn't appear. I don't like seeing spelling and grammar mistakes on message boards, because if you constantly see these errors in print you can start to think that they are correct. But some of them are amusing: "bare" for "bear", for example; and when someone says that they have been laying around all day (instead of lying), I picture them wandering around the garden laying eggs under every bush. The misuse of words is annoying too. "Decimate" means to reduce by one-tenth: it's what the Roman army did to their own legions as a punishment. But even the Oxford English Dictionary has had to give in and say that it is also now used loosely to mean "to destroy a large proportion of", when this is exactly what it does not mean! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted August 14, 2007 Share Posted August 14, 2007 You could be starting a whole new thread here Gallina. Misuse of the the word "infer" gets me down. It means to draw a conclusion on the basis of evidence, it does not mean to imply, but when most people ask "what are you inferring" they mean "what are you implying or suggesting". Any others anyone?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze Posted August 14, 2007 Share Posted August 14, 2007 I know what it means. you meant to type what you typed, and you don't want people to think it was a typing error Hence I would use it to say I meant to type it like that! Of course it was a joke otherwise I would have just got it right the first time. Ok my English isn't perfect but I'm 26 and when I was at school they didn't teach us anything useful. I never even got taught my tables, just the assumption when I got to secondary school that I knew them. My spelling is a huge amount better than many my age and I can be grateful to my parents for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gallina Posted August 14, 2007 Share Posted August 14, 2007 Your spelling is very good, Bronze! Good spelling was compulsory in our day: we had tests every day at primary school, and we used to have spelling bees as an end-of-term "treat": the person who won received a dictionary as a prize (which was a bit daft, as it was the one who came last who needed it most). Then at secondary school we had English language lessons with Ridout's book. We were given hundreds of sentences, and had to spot the grammatical error in each one. Some were easy (e.g. "who" used instead of "whom"), but others were quite tough. I think somewhere in between our regimented teaching and the free expression of recent years is about right: I hope schools are going that way now. When we wrote an essay (which was then called a composition), we lost one mark out of ten for every spelling mistake, which meant that if you spelt ten words wrongly you automatically got 0 out of 10, even if you were a superb writer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze Posted August 14, 2007 Share Posted August 14, 2007 Bring back that way of teaching. Typos are I guess slightly different as it involves the ability to type. For me some days are better than others. At the moment I have a wriggly baby on my lap so the only reason this is understandable is that I'm really concentrating purely because of the subject making me feel I should. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted August 14, 2007 Share Posted August 14, 2007 You could be starting a whole new thread here Gallina. Misuse of the the word "infer" gets me down. It means to draw a conclusion on the basis of evidence, it does not mean to imply, but when most people ask "what are you inferring" they mean "what are you implying or suggesting". Any others anyone?? Carl's bugbear is the use of the word 'enormity' - this is another word which will probably be accepted to mean what people are using it to mean. It's usage is in dispute according to the Oxford dictionary - the correct word is enormousness........... I think (because I'm guilty of using enormity ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...