May 1, 2008
I wrote their instead of they’re in a comment today. Painfully frustrating, but even so.
Like this post?
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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May *we* post corrective comments about your typos? :)
If so, do split infinitives count?
I do it all the time. It is humbling indeed.
but you will post a corrective blog entry instead?
:-)
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.
Adam, yes and no.
Jenna, absolutely.
I don’t think YOUR an idiot.
Can one be proud of being so humble that one let’s his/her typos remain uncorrected?
Yes, AJ. We can’t be too careful.
But at least with that kind of pride the internet is less cluttered.
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.
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.
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…”)
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.
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?
hmm…are you sure it wasn’t “their” instead of “there”? :)
sorry if i’m beating a dead horse…
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.
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.
Humble college-educated idiocy is what I’ve always aspired to.
You’re pretty much running that risk either way.
on people thinking me an idiot: isn’t that why i blog? to prove i’m not? God have mercy.