I wrote their instead of they’re in a comment today. Painfully frustrating, but even so.

I’ve decided to never post corrective comments about my own stupid typos.

But people will think I’m an idiot!

Yep, that’s humility.

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19 Responses

  1. 1
    Adam (Tampa, FL) says:

    May *we* post corrective comments about your typos? :)

    If so, do split infinitives count?

  2. 2
    Rachel says:

    I do it all the time. It is humbling indeed.

  3. 3
    Jenna says:

    but you will post a corrective blog entry instead?

    :-)

  4. 4
    Kellie says:

    Abraham I can tell you and it seems your extended family place a high priority on grammar. I wish someone had with me- I am always making mistatkes.

  5. 5

    Adam, yes and no.

    Jenna, absolutely.

  6. 6
    Lance says:

    I don’t think YOUR an idiot.

  7. 7
    AJ says:

    Can one be proud of being so humble that one let’s his/her typos remain uncorrected?

  8. 8

    Yes, AJ. We can’t be too careful.

    But at least with that kind of pride the internet is less cluttered.

  9. 9
    rachel says:

    best typo ever:

    my mom wrote a note for the contractor about fixing the clothes chute.

    “close shoot.”

    i think she’s an auditory learner …..

    for myself, i will absolutely delete my incorrect comment and re-post it correctly. but it’s only because i wouldn’t want to lead anyone grammatically astray ….. at least, that’s what i’m going to maintain for now.

  10. 10
    Frank Turk says:

    1. Use Firefox as your browser so you get basic spell-check support.

    2. Use Haloscan for comments so you can edit stuff after it is posted.

    3. Admit that your blog (any blog actually) is a really big scratch pad, and everyone makes typos. It’s a little weird to think that we should be lavish with grace about (for example) prodigal siblings, but somehow we are red-faced over typos. It should be easy to give grace for a typo, and to receive it when we are the perpetrators.

  11. 11
    Bet says:

    Not to rub salt in the wound, but you also recently wrote it’s instead of its. :-)

    Easy mistakes to make, but frustrating all the same. (The mistake was in a comment to the post about “People will want to read whatever you tell them not to, so…”)

  12. 12

    Adam was outta the gate with my first thought; on second, I think you’ve already addressed split infinitives here (or was that just ending sentences with prepositions?).

    On occasion I’m a typo-acknowledger…it’s best when I remain ignorant, so I don’t KNOW I looked like an idiot.

    Plus, I use punctuation for effect and at my discretion…I’m Queen of the Ellipses.

  13. 13
    Nancy Scott says:

    What’s more important? The letter of the law…or it’s intent. And, if we neglect the letter…do we necessarily lose the intent?

  14. 14
    tina b says:

    hmm…are you sure it wasn’t “their” instead of “there”? :)

    sorry if i’m beating a dead horse…

  15. 15
    Tony says:

    I wonder how having or not having a means of correcting one’s mistakes fits into the discussion…

    I got honked at by 2 cars this morning for not paying attention to the green arrow. They honked, I went. I really had no option of trying to correct or explain myself.

    If humility is admitting (even if it’s just to myself) that I can be an idiot, then, I was humble. But if it’s not choosing to correct myself when I have the opportunity to, then maybe there wasn’t true humility to have been had in my green arrow incident.

    As I think about this more, I think humility is admitting or being OK with the fact that I can be an idiot.

  16. 16
    Chris says:

    I posted a corrective comment in your college post to correct a typo in a previous comment I made. Just proof that one should always read before hitting ‘Enter’ or be considered a humble idiot. With a college degree.

  17. 17

    Humble college-educated idiocy is what I’ve always aspired to.

  18. 18
    ED says:

    You’re pretty much running that risk either way.

  19. 19
    karen says:

    on people thinking me an idiot: isn’t that why i blog? to prove i’m not? God have mercy.

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