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Dan & his Typos

June 27, 2008 by GayPatriotWest

Last week, as I was reading my review of Julie Andrews’ memoir to a friend who likes my speaking voice, I found I often had to pause to mark a typo on the printout.  I have since fixed those errors.

In the past few days, as I’ve been reviewing my posts on marriage, I found a similar number of mistakes.  I guess I’m not the greatest proof-reader of my own work.

In this medium, our readers are often our editors.  If you catch a mistake in any of my posts, would you please alert me to it? Â

Thanks!Â

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Comments

  1. ThatGayConservative says

    June 27, 2008 at 6:12 am - June 27, 2008

    If you catch a mistake in any of my posts, would you please alert me to it?

    Did you end that sentence with a preposition? I forget how that works.

  2. cme says

    June 27, 2008 at 9:53 am - June 27, 2008

    I can definitely relate. I am always careful to keep anything I write free from spelling errors, grammatical mistakes, and every other type of writing blunder. Then after I checking what I’ve written multiple times, I send it out. Inevitably, if I check it again, I’ll still find bad errors.

  3. heliotrope says

    June 27, 2008 at 11:02 am - June 27, 2008

    Tahnkfully, my writnig is allways error free. I ascribe this to cleen living and pelenty of carless screwtiny. Mabe you could ware a tuxsedoe when you right as a way to remind yurself that you need to be purfect.

  4. Peter Hughes says

    June 27, 2008 at 11:32 am - June 27, 2008

    Don’t sweat it, Dan. Those of us who have attained a degree in English still find the need to run grammar & spell-check on all items.

    Regards,
    Peter H.

  5. ThatGayConservative says

    June 27, 2008 at 1:46 pm - June 27, 2008

    I usually just pay attention to spelling. Never much cared for English class. Sentence diagraming was the worst. I know I’m not a professional writer and don’t pretend to be. I just hammer it out and hope for the best.

  6. American Elephant says

    June 27, 2008 at 6:12 pm - June 27, 2008

    If you catch a mistake in any of my posts, would you please alert me to it?

    Who has that kind of time!?

    (Obviously kidding since you’re a much better writer than I)

  7. ILoveCapitalism says

    June 28, 2008 at 10:07 am - June 28, 2008

    Dan, here’s the thing. If I notice some bad typo and tell you via e-mail, that means I have to switch over to my e-mail account, go through a series of clicks as I interact with some slow-ish Web mail service, etc. I’m more likely to just write a quick comment on the post itself. But there have been 1-2 occasions when you’ve expressed not enjoying that. So, I no longer say anything.

  8. Gene in Pennsylvania says

    June 28, 2008 at 1:40 pm - June 28, 2008

    OMG please don’t let’s start critiquing grammar and spelling. Or we are all gonna be here not discussing the issues.

  9. ILoveCapitalism says

    June 29, 2008 at 10:43 pm - June 29, 2008

    Gene, no fear, I (at least) only ever used to do it when it was bad enough to state the opposite meaning of what the author probably intended.

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