As a recovering grammar nazi,
I have made possibly three typos thus far…
Well, they weren’t really typos.
My brain moves faster than my thumbs, and I occasionally leave out a single little adverb.
But it haunts me.
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Discussion
Typos aren’t the same as consistent misapplication 🫡
I know proper spelling and grammar. I have an impressively sesquipedalian vocabulary. These stupid phone keyboards are too God damn small. And when you spend more time correcting mistakes than typing the message some days you just give up and hit send and hope people get it. The day someone invents a floating regular keyboard sized keyboard I can whip out a moments notice the mistakes will stop.
Meanwhile half the time the mistakes i make are usually the first letter of the word but the rest is fine. Which is the day I learned that auto correct really doesn't take that into account. It will offer me entirely different words because my golly green giant thumb hit the wrong first letter.
A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.
"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife annual and tosses it over his shoulder.
"I'm a panda," he says, at the door. "Look it up."
The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.
Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.