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To: Finny
but I'm so turned of by certain kinds of typos that the writer loses credibility with me, right or wrong.

Ain't Karma a bitch???

78 posted on 01/13/2010 4:01:00 PM PST by UCANSEE2
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To: UCANSEE2
I sure do like your homepage:

GOD does not help me because I am good. GOD helps me because GOD is good. Out of lots of great material on your homepage, that is one that REALLY sings.

As for your comments above: typos in Free Republic posts almost always get a pass from me because I know anyone can make them and that if everyone took the time to properly proof their posts, this forum would cease being timely; it would be a STUPID placement of priorities. This is not a professional writers' forum and the people who post comments are not doing so as professional writers. When I, or you, or anyone else makes a typo, I brush it off with some few exceptions. Anyone who gets bunched up over such typos in FReeper posts needs to get a healthier perspective.

As for your comment that If you are not familiar with, or don’t like a particular author, then their typos are due to ‘arrogance’," that's insulting and silly. The other day I saw a post (as differentiated from a comment) of a piece supposedly written by a professional writer. I had never heard of the person and in fact the person sounded like a closet liberal, or RINO. He wrote "stir the course" instead of "steer the course." That was a typo in my opinion as a long-time, experienced professional writer, and the writer clearly had a healthy and good respect for the English language. I didn't know the writer and was inclined not to approve of his opinion, but still was honest enough NOT to attribute his typo to arrogance, thank you very much.

Typos are inevitable; contempt for proper English usage is deplorable. They are two different things, and very subjective at that, you're right, and if you had actually paid attention to the two or three posts on this thread where I address that point, you'll have noted that I consider it a weakness in myself to be tempted to dismiss them as such.

You don't know what causes typos anymore than you know what causes stubbed toes. You were wrong -- you just lack the grace to admit it. :^)

80 posted on 01/15/2010 8:31:08 AM PST by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent.)
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