Typos

[Melooon]

I would like to hear about typos! They are a major fact of life for anyone typing their thoughts down, and although many tools exist to help spot and detect writing issues I find I still make many typos! 

What are your thoughts on typos?? Do you fear them? Do you leave them in place? Do certain keyboards or writing programs cause you to have more or less typos?

One of the more known ones that I kept in place was my "Aboot" page, that was very much a typo, but I've kept it in for many years because people seem to enjoy it 

Have you made any funny or embarrassing typos? 

[Twigz0n]

I think when it comes to typos the context is kind of important. So if I’m just texting a friend on discord or whatever and we’re both typing really fast, unless the typo actively misleads my intention with the text I’ll change it. Although there have been times where a typo just annoys me for whatever reason during texts and I will edit it just cause.

Normally when I write a reply on here or write something like a journal/blog post I’ll try to fix typos where I can because I want my thoughts and ideas to be communicated clearly, and maybe also because I get a little embarrassed about it too lol. Smaller ones may go unnoticed and I might fix them later or if the post has been up long enough I’ll just leave it.

Obviously when you’re writing a job application or anything that’s work/business related you’ll want to be as clear and grammatically correct as possible as that’s just basic professionalism. But away from the professionalism stuff. Sometimes when I want to sound funnier I’ll leave my typos in or purposefully misspell certain words to make them sound funnier or because they look funnh.<— Like that one I just created lol

But sometimes it can be very annoying and inconvenient for me because my iPad SAVES MY TYPOS. So when I’m typing the word “something” normally it’ll occasionally “””correct””” it to “soemthing” 

Some of my other typos include whatevef, hvae, Brian (for whne I try to spell brain) whne as just seen lol

My friend and I have come up with an idea of who this “Brian” guy might be but so far we’ve both come to the conclusion that he’s a straight white guy from Canada who listens to the band muse and wears those black and red checkered flannel shirts

[Corrupted Unicorn]

I think my most memorable typo was writing "cojon" instead of "cajon" while roleplaying on Neopets and spending the whole day fearing I would get my account frozen over it

My second most memorable typo was "i didn't get [person]'s isntagram" which was really fitting for the situation. I still deliberately type "Isntagram" sometimes   

I still catch a lot of typos on my website  I feel embarrassed by them, just the normal amount I think. Maybe sometimes I type too fast.

My rule of thumb regarding typos is: if it's funny, leave it on 

[AY38910]

On an IRC channel I'm in, "mean" has been misspelled as "mena" more than 100 times. Also "the" has been misspelled as "hte" 241 times. "typo" has been missp3lled as "tyop" 11 times, 7 of which were me :/

Also yes I keep a log of this shit

[WK_0]

Typoes are funny little things, aren't they? They lead people into funny methods of expression too, from my observations. Like. They're so small, easy to miss, yet the moment someone spots it they hone in like a hawk. It's pretty strange and intriguing to think about, how such a small moment can paint a big portion of our online socialising.

Being the somewhat wordy and slightly perfectionist guy I can be, on text, I have a history of agonising over whether everything I write is clear enough to read, so of course I kinda grew to dislike when I make typoes, even when the pointing of them is in jest and not meant out of malice. There's this sting of "what is wrong with you?" from it, like I should have known better yet I still let it slip anyways. This all kinda painted my overall dislike of touchscreens and pads for longform writing over time. They make typoes easier to make and harder to fix, so I prefer tactile keyboards over them as I have more control over what I'm inputting in the first place. If a mistake happens, I'm at least content in knowing I'm the one solely making the mistake, and not being held back by external program-related factors.

Thankfully, I've grown to not take myself too seriously and feel less hostile to my own typoes, and lately I've learned to just let them go when they're not changing any big factors in what I'm writing. As long as the core message gets through, who cares? Let folks point and laugh and make fun of me if they want, it's all in good jest, and if not that's more on the reader than on me. Maybe I left the typo there because I find it funny, myself.

[devils]

I don't like having them on my website, but on direct messaging I love them and often find myself writing them on purpose. They lead to so many funny interactions, and besides... it does make me ✦*✦ quirky ✦*✦.

On forums like these and social media, I just kind of don't care... typos are inevitable if you type a lot, c'est la vie!