Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: halfthebattle118
One typo and it's all meaningless. Anyone else ever make a typing error, or is it just me?
8 posted on 09/20/2006 1:24:18 PM PDT by halfthebattle118 (Large government = less freedom)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies ]


To: halfthebattle118
Anyone else ever make a typing error, or is it just me?

Nope, just you. We old timers don't post vanities for this very reason. It's always open season.

21 posted on 09/20/2006 1:34:09 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies ]

To: halfthebattle118
One typo and it's all meaningless. Anyone else ever make a typing error, or is it just me?

Sure, but there are typing errors and there are typing errors. If the point of your rant is to take down the horrible education system in this country, you best post something that makes you look a bit edjumucated.

26 posted on 09/20/2006 1:37:33 PM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies ]

To: halfthebattle118
One typo and it's all meaningless.

Actually, that was not a typo. A typo is inadvertent. Using "loosing" instead of "losing" is a rather common event these days. I see it so much, I have stopped pointing it out. This is not to impugn your intelligence, but one should be sure that the choice of words and spellings is correct when commenting on education, lest one became an example supporting one's own argument. Another point is that a spell check will totally miss this, and spell check is no substitute for a proper education. (I'm being very careful to use correct phrasing and proper spelling and punctuation right now. How did I do?)

27 posted on 09/20/2006 1:38:08 PM PDT by webheart (Have a nice day!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies ]

To: halfthebattle118
Anyone else ever make a typing error, or is it just me?

Everyone makes errors.
That's why pencils have erasers. Why don't you ask the mod to correct it?

33 posted on 09/20/2006 1:52:30 PM PDT by b9 ("the [evil Marxist liberal socialist Democrat Party] alternative is unthinkable" ~ Jim Robinson)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies ]

To: halfthebattle118
Anyone else ever make a typing error, or is it just me?

You're not losing your grip, are you?

I constantly make typos. Someone has a tagline I love: Qwerty Ergo Typo - I type therefore I missppell.

51 posted on 09/20/2006 2:19:09 PM PDT by siunevada (If we learn nothing from history, what's the point of having one? - Peggy Hill)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies ]

To: halfthebattle118
Anyone else ever make a typing error, or is it just me?

Know, its jost yue.

54 posted on 09/20/2006 2:30:25 PM PDT by Prokopton
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies ]

To: halfthebattle118

Ever try to interview all the high-voltage electricians that made a mistake?


60 posted on 09/20/2006 2:45:27 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies ]

To: halfthebattle118

Ah, but the typo was hugh!


66 posted on 09/20/2006 3:15:22 PM PDT by JRios1968 (Tagline wanted...inquire within)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies ]

To: halfthebattle118
Anyone else ever make a typing error, or is it just me?

I once heard that the only thing making someone look more ridiculous posting a typo is pointing it out.

But I think the pointer in this case didn't see it as a typo, but as using the wrong wrong. A grammar error.
70 posted on 09/20/2006 4:21:36 PM PDT by CottonBall
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies ]

To: halfthebattle118

The problem with your argument is that it's usually not a typo.

As a writing teacher, I see this incorrect usage all the time. I've even spotted it in an editorial in the Houston Chronicle.

It's truly a sign of the state of education in our country.


74 posted on 09/20/2006 4:41:30 PM PDT by wildbill
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson