Spelling errors.

[ThomCat]

Do you ever look back on a post and cringe?

Do you notice that you posted a similar but incorrect word like "someone" instead of "somehow" in a sentence?

My spelling is not the greatest even at the best of times. I often "see" what I intended to type instead of what I really typed. I'm just glad that people here are smart enough to figure out what I intend to say instead of what I actually said.

[uppityperson]

1. indude I do.

[ThomCat]

6. LOL!

Thank you. That makes me feel much better. :rofl:

[BarenakedLady]

2. I do it all the time

And then people like to point out my errors. I usually hit spell check just in case, but it doesn't fix properly spelled misused words, which is what I usually do. hehehe.

:hi:

How are you doing?

[ThomCat]

I'm still in the office, and it's now 8pm.

So I can't claim today is a good day. But it's not a bad day either. It's just a Monday. :shrug:

:hi:
How are you?

[BarenakedLady]

24. I'm ok

Why are you working so late?

:hug:

[ThomCat]

28. Same old reason. Work is backing up and has to get done.

Our office is closed for a week between Christmas and New Years, so if I don't get ahead now I'll be ready to hurt people in January.

[bigwillq]

3. Sometimes I spell check

sometimes I don't.

Sometimes I read over what I write.
Sometimes I don't.

Judge me or not.

I don't give a crap.



:)

[ThomCat]

10. Is it okay to judge you

if you always get judged well? :P

[bigwillq]

11. Yes. Then it's ok.

:P :)

[ThomCat]

15. Oh good!

I keep judging how cute you are every time I see a picture of you in a photo thread.

Um, actually it's not so much judging you as it is announcing, "Hawt Damn!" :blush:

[bigwillq]

25. I like when people judge me that way!

:P :)

:hi:

[Guava Jelly]

4. About everything i post

Has errors in it.
And yes i cringe..

[ThomCat]

9. But you have a harem of naughty girls to take your mind off it.

:P

[Guava Jelly]

16. They are so great!! I just love them all!

All are my friends and all very beautiful people.
Too bad I probably will never meet any of them :(
(they probably just feel sorry for me i'm guessing)

[ThomCat]

19. Ha! We'll have a national Meetup some day

and you're going to find yourself surrounded. And a bunch of us will have cameras when that happens. :7

[BarenakedLady]

27. Oh shit

Was I supposed to be feeling sorry for you? I was too busy feeling sorry for myself...:rofl:

Oh wait, I'm not a naughty girl. Just a wannabe O8)

[Guava Jelly]

35. Oh you are a naughty girl alright

I don't believe the angel smiley for a second :rofl:

[SeattleGirl]

5. Oh yes.

My worst spelling error occurred when I worked for a company called The Consulting Network. I often typed "Consluting" instead of "Consulting"......and I wasn't the only one. We learned to check each others letters before sending them out! :rofl:

[ThomCat]

12. LOL!

:rofl: I'm a consultant. I'll have to remember to look out for that.

[SeattleGirl]

18. The really funny thing was that the company was all female

And we were Naughty Girls. :rofl:

[wildhorses]

7. with every post i make

and as you can see, i have completely given up on capitalization:P

[ThomCat]

13. CapiTaliZation is oVerratEd.

:P

[wildhorses]

43. ---

:hug:

did you ever hire someone??

[ThomCat]

55. No, we didn't.

My boss has two assistants, and I'm now sharing them. So I don't have a dedicated assistant, and I have to negotiate with him to get their help on a week by week basis. The work will get done, but in a way that doesn't give me the stable predictable help I need. x(

I'm giving it a try, but I'm also still interviewing.

[BarenakedLady]

29. e.e cummings

is my favorite poet for a reason. ;-)

well that and his poems are awesome.

[ThomCat]

31. Please post a favorite!

I like to see other people's favorites. Retrolounge has me reading poetry (I have no idea if he realizes how influential he can be) and I now have two of my favorites posted in my office. Whenever I get eye strain I sit back, look up and focus on the far wall to read them. :)

[BarenakedLady]

33. Well I have so many...

This was the first one that made me fall in love with his stuff (Lit 101 or something - Emerson College)

in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman

whistles far and wee

and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring

when the world is puddle-wonderful

the queer
old balloonman whistles
far and wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing

from hop-scotch and jump-rope and

it's
spring
and
the

goat-footed

balloonMan whistles
far
and
wee

*me again. Well it was reformatted incorrectly once I hit post, but I don't know how to correct it. :shrug: You can see it as it's meant to be here http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1636.html His poems are often visual as well, which really hooks me in even more to read it as he wrote it words running together quickly giving vision to the prose. I don't know, I just really dig him. He's got some great very sexual stuff as well.

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/8454/eec.htm

[wildhorses]

42. thank you for that BnL

i am having one of THOSE days...TheSmoker has been calling and good grief...

will it ever end?
do i want it to end?

i am SICK of thinking about it.

i read e e cummings
and back to childhood and spring i go...

i wish i could stay there
with
eddieandbill
and
bettyandlisbel

[BarenakedLady]

44. Awwwww

:hug:

[LanternWaste]

51. My fav cumings...

if all the bugs
in all the worlds
twixt earth and betelgeuse

should sharpen up
their little stingers
and let their feelings loose

then all human beans
on saturn earth and mars
would find their relative significance
among the spinning of the stars


Read it in HS many years ago and love it to this day.

[Kutjara]

8. Just about every post I make has a red "edited" line in it.

I can't let any error I've noticed remain.

[ThomCat]

14. Me too. Except, it's often too late to edit by the time I notice

my mistakes. :cry:

[crim son]

17. All the time.

I make spelling mistakes and typos and I'd like to think it just adds to my native charm :D

[ThomCat]

20. I'd like to agree.

:)

[crim son]

32. ...

:hug: Wise Thom.

[BarenakedLady]

30. so it's a maine thing?

:shrug: or just a new england thing? i'm still a new englander at heart.

[crim son]

34. A New England thing in that we recognize we've made

errors? :) Possibly. As for remaining a New Englander, I think I will do that even after I return to the west, some day.

[Left Is Write]

21. I cringe when I see my own typos.

I think most of us are better at proofreading others' work than our own - I often see what I intended rather than what I actually wrote.

[ThomCat]

22. It's very funny how that works.

We can't disassociate from our own perspective and expectations well enough to even see our own mistakes. There's a serious lesson we all could learn from that.

Um, but I'm not sure what it is. :dunce:

[Hibernias Daughter]

23. I do that too

But you were one of the first people I met on DU (I told you about my almost-20 year old cat Thom and you said you were proud to be his namesake) I knew then that you were a nice guy. :-)

I judged not necessarily on what you said, but how you said it. A spelling or word error wouldn't have changed that! :bounce:

[ThomCat]

26. I remember that post.

:)

I've joked a couple of times since then that I'm named after cat, because I started spelling my name Thom instead of Tom about 20 years ago, and of course I'm ThomCat here at DU. :P

[Redstone]

36. Yse.

Redstine

[ThomCat]

37. I do thta all teh time too.

:P

[Redstone]

38. Yuo do waht?

Rwdstpne

[Starbucks Anarchist]

39. Nope, because I'm an excellent speller.

;)

[ThomCat]

40. Ah, a man of skill we can all strive to emulate!

:)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

41. Sadly, my only skill.

:P

[hyphenate]

45. I've missed some of them

when I go over my posts quickly. I'm pretty good in both grammar and spelling, and try to make certain everything I write is correct, however, there are a few I miss on occasion. The most glaring example of that is "there" vs "they're" vs "their." Since I usually edit as I write, that example might get missed.

[ThomCat]

48. That's the type of mistake I'm less likely to make.

I have no idea why that is. You'd think, given the other mistakes I make, that I'm make those too. :shug:

[swimboy]

46. A really important word to double check proofread

is public

[ThomCat]

47. Do you get that one wrong often?

:P

[Richardo]

49. My worst ever: 'nose' when I meant 'knows'. Really.

That just about convinced me I had a brain tumor. I mean really, how can that happen?

[ThomCat]

50. Phoenetic spelling. Yup. All the time.

At least people can figure out what you're trying to say. It sounds right even if it doesn't look right. :P

[In_The_Wind]

52. oh yeah

one that we all laughed about was: I meant to 'the crowds were too big' I said "the crows were too big" or said "$2500" when I meant to say $250

The DUers who love me laugh with me the rest of 'em find fault and have a wonderful time by PM at my expense then start threads about it later on. :shrug: oh well

[ThomCat]

53. Yes, shit happens.

And if people feel the need to PM back and forth mocking typos, well, at least they keep the meanness private.

If they start threads about it... x(
That's just asking for an intervention with inconvenient end of my cane!

[libodem]

54. yes

and some times I wonder about the threads where people discuss poor spelling, words and phrases they hate and sentence structure, if they are talking about me. Oh, that paranoia. One time in a thread like that someone hated seeing several periods in a row for punctuation. I do it all the time to mean a running thought or conversational line. And i use many of the most reviled words. Plus I spell like a freeper. Most of my grammar is okay but I have to spell check everything I write. Did I mention that I can't type? I hunt and peck. This is so sad. My IQ is well over average and I'm a good Democrat. I am always cringing over my mistakes. It's no wonder no one likes me.