The Great Typo Hunt
Here’s an NPR story about a couple of guys who decided to stop fuming about typos on signs and DO something about it!
Just trying to make school more cool?
At the end, readers are invited to tell their most un-favorite typos. Mine is “it’s” in place of “its,” as in “blah blah at it’s best.”
What’s yours?
Tags: annoying typos, correcting typos, good writing, perfect punctuation, professional writer, proofreading
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Hi, Liz – good post on an IMPORTANT topic.
From my teaching and training perspective, this is just a reflection of the “dumb down” effect that abbreviated communication, such as Twitter and IM, has had on our ability to communicate correctly.
Some of us love words and take joy in expressing ourselves, using proper grammar, sentence structure, and punctuation, and even spelling, so we struggle with those who just communicate.
“Yes, I figured out what you were trying to say, but I had to work real hard to do so. By the way, you did not say what you meant to say, you said something else. I graded on what you said, not what you meant.”
I guess I do not have any “favorite” typos, simply because I’m exhausted from finding them on student papers:). However, I feel much better now for having vented, so I can go back to . . . wait for it . . . grading student papers:).
John