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#1 2011-09-08 16:17:36

bluecrab
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Type-o's for typos

“One quick proof-read could’ve cleaned up two or three glaring type-o’s.”
It makes sense, in a way. Typing mistakes make a bloody mess, easily prevented by “proof-reading.”

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#2 2011-09-09 04:23:31

DavidTuggy
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Re: Type-o's for typos

In a way. But you don’t seriously think that people spelling it that way have such a sanguinary image in their mind and think that everybody does, do you? And why not type a’s or type-ab’s, then?


*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .

(Possible Corollary: it is, and we are .)

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#3 2011-09-09 09:03:03

bluecrab
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Re: Type-o's for typos

No, I don’t. But to see such a rendering makes my blood run cold.

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