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The Most Annoying Typo. Which typo(s) bother(s) you, if any?

#1 gsninja

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Posted 18 July 2007 - 03:38 PM

I don't know why I made this topic, I just felt like it. XD

Anyways, do any of you have a certain disdain for a specific typo, maybe because the typo appears way too often, or it just plain annoys you?

The typo that annoys me the most is the misspelling of the word "definitely" as "definately". I've seen this word misspelled SO many times in the exact same way that it's started to bug me. =P

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Posted 18 July 2007 - 04:14 PM

ur stoopid y cant u understnad tht i can typ lik i want 2 none of ur buzness lol but out

^^ that kind.

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Posted 18 July 2007 - 04:18 PM

The type that most annoys me is definately(:P) when people type Your instead of You're. I don't really know why it annoys me so much, it just does. I don't need to have a reason!

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Posted 18 July 2007 - 04:34 PM

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v734/flamingduck33/cow.png

You like that? Huh?

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Posted 18 July 2007 - 04:36 PM

I'd have to go with you're/your.

Sometimes I spell definitely, "definetly" or something like that. Does that count?

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Posted 18 July 2007 - 05:18 PM

What about mabey? eh? EH?!

I chose other as none of those typos bug me.

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Posted 18 July 2007 - 07:36 PM

I voted your/You're. It also bugs me when people leave out punctuation. I saw this sign about nutrition the other day that really showed me the value of a comma. It said:

Eat smart kids. :P

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Posted 18 July 2007 - 07:51 PM

A woman without her man is nothing.

Men punctuate it:
A woman without her man, is nothing.

Women punctuate it:
A woman: without her, man is nothing.

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Posted 19 July 2007 - 04:26 AM

Okay/play. All it takes is your right hand to be one position too far to the right.

And I hate alt tabbing into the wrong MSN window. ):

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Posted 19 July 2007 - 12:41 PM

Other.

People who dont use capital letters. It annoys me like hell.

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Posted 19 July 2007 - 01:47 PM

Some of the things that have realy annoyed my various English teachers:

a lot/alot

effect/affect

expect/accept

also forgetting the apostraphe in contractions, and one that realy irratates one, adverbs, but those are not typos.

What I realy hate is when people just don't proof thier work, or don't use paragraph formating, just make everything one long block of text, as opposed to seperating each person's speaking role into seperate paragraphs. I think about this a lot because I have taken several creative writing classes.

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Posted 19 July 2007 - 03:20 PM

escout, on Jul 19 2007, 08:47 PM, said:

expect/accept

I think you mean accept and except, but I totally agree with you there. Annoys me so much when people say "Oh man, it was sooo good accept I lost all my stuff" or similar.

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Posted 19 July 2007 - 03:29 PM

Oooh, as a writer I encounter other authors that have amazing fluency and story lines, but HORRIBLE spelling.

Probably the two most common ones I see, and even see written professionally wrong (Is that possible?) are

Practise (PractiCe) and Realise (RealiZe)

I tend to be a little lazy when it comes to its/it's, but dont/don't, cant/can't, etc. bugs the hell out of me. I like to use good grammar and spelling (or as some people will say, "speeling") because I think good literacy shows that person is educated and that definitely gives them more credibility.

One good way of spelling definitely is something my teacher taught us last year. First, spell "finite", then add "De" to the beginning (and "ly" to the end if you're making it an adverb) I admit, I was a target of the "Definately" misspelling before that.

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Posted 19 July 2007 - 09:09 PM

Thing is cant and can't are actualy two different words. Here's my proof.

http://www.kasuto.net/fanfic.php?main=fanf...anfic1_top.html

Read through the whole thing and you see several things that can be useful. the cant can't and other such typos are near the bottem.

As a sidebar, this site is also a kickass site for Zelda fanfiction.

Edit: Also, in one book I have, the are numerous typos of the word 'the' instead, it's spelled 'tbe' I found it funny at first, but when it appears every few pages in a 400 page book, it gets kinda annoying.

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Posted 20 July 2007 - 02:04 AM

escout, on Jul 19 2007, 12:47 PM, said:

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Posted 20 July 2007 - 02:09 AM

Don't do it, PDM.

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Posted 20 July 2007 - 02:24 AM

I didn't, don't worry.

But the thought was there, just know that.

The thought was certainly there.

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Posted 20 July 2007 - 08:39 PM

._.

Errors in the usage of a/an are becoming a lot more common now. It's sad, really, because using a/an correctly is extremely easy. =|

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Posted 20 July 2007 - 09:07 PM

I think Were / we're / where should be on that..

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Posted 21 July 2007 - 12:05 AM

lightningstar, on Jul 19 2007, 09:29 PM, said:

Realise (RealiZe)

Realise is also correct.

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Posted 21 July 2007 - 04:15 AM

gsninja, on Jul 20 2007, 07:39 PM, said: