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Dan & his Typos

Posted by GayPatriotWest at 4:05 am - June 27, 2008.
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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?  

Thanks! 

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  1. 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.

    Comment by ThatGayConservative — June 27, 2008 @ 6:12 am - June 27, 2008

  2. 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.

    Comment by cme — June 27, 2008 @ 9:53 am - June 27, 2008

  3. 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.

    Comment by heliotrope — June 27, 2008 @ 11:02 am - June 27, 2008

  4. 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.

    Comment by Peter Hughes — June 27, 2008 @ 11:32 am - June 27, 2008

  5. 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.

    Comment by ThatGayConservative — June 27, 2008 @ 1:46 pm - June 27, 2008

  6. 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)

    Comment by American Elephant — June 27, 2008 @ 6:12 pm - June 27, 2008

  7. 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.

    Comment by ILoveCapitalism — June 28, 2008 @ 10:07 am - June 28, 2008

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

    Comment by Gene in Pennsylvania — June 28, 2008 @ 1:40 pm - June 28, 2008

  9. 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.

    Comment by ILoveCapitalism — June 29, 2008 @ 10:43 pm - June 29, 2008

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