Comments on: Oof.. I hate other people’s typos. I want to fix them all. http://www.spugbrap.com/blog/2007/02/oof-i-hate-other-peoples-typos-i-want-to-fix-them-all/ This is a repository for my favorite scripts, regexes, commandlines, utilities, code snippets, tips, and other geeky things that might be useful to someone googling for an obscure solution some day. It's also a place to share my thoughts about companies I've dealt with, my favorite lifehacks, observations of interesting human behavior, clever and/or evil marketing schemes I've run across, and anything else I feel compelled to write about. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:38:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Rebecca Beisly http://www.spugbrap.com/blog/2007/02/oof-i-hate-other-peoples-typos-i-want-to-fix-them-all/#comment-5004 Rebecca Beisly Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:48:37 +0000 http://www.spugbrap.com/blog/2007/02/oof-i-hate-other-peoples-typos-i-want-to-fix-them-all/#comment-5004 Here it is over a year later, and I finally noticed you'd replied to my comment! So it's a little late, but since no one else replied... I say "leave it as it is!" And it looks like that's just what you did, too! So have you noticed things getting any better or have typos proliferated to the point of almost the majority now? Here it is over a year later, and I finally noticed you’d replied to my comment! So it’s a little late, but since no one else replied… I say “leave it as it is!”
And it looks like that’s just what you did, too!

So have you noticed things getting any better or have typos proliferated to the point of almost the majority now?

]]> By: A couple of product support no-brainers [spugbrap’s blog] http://www.spugbrap.com/blog/2007/02/oof-i-hate-other-peoples-typos-i-want-to-fix-them-all/#comment-742 A couple of product support no-brainers [spugbrap’s blog] Sat, 27 Oct 2007 04:33:57 +0000 http://www.spugbrap.com/blog/2007/02/oof-i-hate-other-peoples-typos-i-want-to-fix-them-all/#comment-742 [...] As a picky reader, I also can’t help but spot typos in other people’s writing (but not in my own, apparently!), broken English (like instructions written by people for whom English is clearly not their primary [...] […] As a picky reader, I also can’t help but spot typos in other people’s writing (but not in my own, apparently!), broken English (like instructions written by people for whom English is clearly not their primary […]

]]> By: spugbrap’s blog » Blog Archive » A couple of product support no-brainers http://www.spugbrap.com/blog/2007/02/oof-i-hate-other-peoples-typos-i-want-to-fix-them-all/#comment-561 spugbrap’s blog » Blog Archive » A couple of product support no-brainers Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:07:04 +0000 http://www.spugbrap.com/blog/2007/02/oof-i-hate-other-peoples-typos-i-want-to-fix-them-all/#comment-561 [...] As a picky reader, I also can’t help but spot typos in other people’s writing (but not in my own, apparently!), broken English (like instructions written by people for whom English is clearly not their primary [...] […] As a picky reader, I also can’t help but spot typos in other people’s writing (but not in my own, apparently!), broken English (like instructions written by people for whom English is clearly not their primary […]

]]> By: spugbrap http://www.spugbrap.com/blog/2007/02/oof-i-hate-other-peoples-typos-i-want-to-fix-them-all/#comment-559 spugbrap Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:24:15 +0000 http://www.spugbrap.com/blog/2007/02/oof-i-hate-other-peoples-typos-i-want-to-fix-them-all/#comment-559 Rebecca: I hope you're not too angry about it, but you're absolutely right -- that was a typo! I did mean "though". Thanks for pointing it out! The next question is: Do I leave it as-is, so your comment makes sense (and for irony's sake), or edit the original post? Rebecca:
I hope you’re not too angry about it, but you’re absolutely right — that was a typo! I did mean “though”. Thanks for pointing it out!

The next question is: Do I leave it as-is, so your comment makes sense (and for irony’s sake), or edit the original post?

]]> By: Rebecca Beisly http://www.spugbrap.com/blog/2007/02/oof-i-hate-other-peoples-typos-i-want-to-fix-them-all/#comment-560 Rebecca Beisly Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:16:56 +0000 http://www.spugbrap.com/blog/2007/02/oof-i-hate-other-peoples-typos-i-want-to-fix-them-all/#comment-560 Hmm. Very interesting. I actually feel the same as you do (in some ways) about typos, but I suspect that they tend to make me _angrier_ than they do you. One typo, however, that didn't make me angry, but instead gave me a little smile, believe it or not, was one of your very own! (And it happened to be the ONLY typo I noticed in your post, in fact... congratulations!) I'm referring to the very last word of your post: "through". Perhaps you were merely announcing that the article had come to an end, but I didn't think so. I suspect you meant "though"... was I right? And if so, was it intentional? I thought it was a real, live, honest-to-goodness typo, simple as that. (But I still wanted to find out!) Thanks for the post! Hmm. Very interesting. I actually feel the same as you do (in some ways) about typos, but I suspect that they tend to make me _angrier_ than they do you. One typo, however, that didn’t make me angry, but instead gave me a little smile, believe it or not, was one of your very own! (And it happened to be the ONLY typo I noticed in your post, in fact… congratulations!) I’m referring to the very last word of your post: “through”. Perhaps you were merely announcing that the article had come to an end, but I didn’t think so. I suspect you meant “though”… was I right? And if so, was it intentional? I thought it was a real, live, honest-to-goodness typo, simple as that. (But I still wanted to find out!) Thanks for the post!

]]> By: Clint http://www.spugbrap.com/blog/2007/02/oof-i-hate-other-peoples-typos-i-want-to-fix-them-all/#comment-558 Clint Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:58:06 +0000 http://www.spugbrap.com/blog/2007/02/oof-i-hate-other-peoples-typos-i-want-to-fix-them-all/#comment-558 Just print out a "P" and put it on the sign. Problem-Reaction-Solution! :) Just print out a “P” and put it on the sign. Problem-Reaction-Solution! :)

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