Truly evil typos

[EmilyMiller]

#1 - discrete and discreet - both words - both sound the same when using Speak ‘N Spell - just fucking different meanings

Just found an instance in an otherwise blemish-free story.



Em

 

[ElectricBlue]

@SimonDoom's favourite: waist and waste

Bill Gates' spellchecker always gets it wrong: it's and its

Often spotted in the wrong places: there, they're, and their

principle and principal

effect and affect

complimentary and complementary

alimentary and elementary

sea and see

whore and hoar

past and passed (but not pasta)

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

#1 - discrete and discreet - both words - both sound the same when using Speak ‘N Spell - just fucking different meanings

Just found an instance in an otherwise blemish-free story.



Em

Would this be like anal mint instead of annulment?

 

[alohadave]

principle and principal

I always use: The principal is my pal.

Bill Gates' spellchecker

My version of Word likes to suggest that 'The' at the beginning of a sentence should be 'the'. I'm not sure if it's a bug or some weird rule that it's confused by.

 

[Duleigh]

My breath often fails to breathe. (Having COPD I gasp when I see that!)
This is a misspelling I only seem to catch when using Read Aloud. (Desert and Dessert also rear their ugly heads)

 

[Zanzie]

I know someone who claims to know someone who got fired from their job for emailing a customer and offering a 10% disocunt.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

principle and principal

Just remember that the principal, sets the principles by which we determine the principal principle to define the duties of the principal principal. It's a principle. got it?

 

[Djmac1031]

My autocorrect changes "but" to "bit" so....fucking...OFTEN.

You've probably seen me do it the forum because I just get too annoyed to go back and fix it.

I have to really comb through my stories for it though.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

My autocorrect changes "but" to "bit" so....fucking...OFTEN.

You've probably seen me do it the forum because I just get too annoyed to go back and fix it.

I have to really comb through my stories for it though.

I end up with teh instead of the. I'd like to blame the autocorrect, but I just have fat fingers...

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

My autocorrect changes "but" to "bit" so....fucking...OFTEN.

You've probably seen me do it the forum because I just get too annoyed to go back and fix it.

I have to really comb through my stories for it though.

This just hit me... But(t) fucking vs bit fucking. Yeah, such a painful distinction...

 

[Djmac1031]

This just hit me... But(t) fucking vs bit fucking. Yeah, such a painful distinction...

And we haven't even mentioned bat fucking yet, let alone which definition of bat we're talking about...

 

[Zanzie]

My autocorrect changes "but" to "bit" so....fucking...OFTEN.

You've probably seen me do it the forum because I just get too annoyed to go back and fix it.

I have to really comb through my stories for it though.

I turned off my autocorrect awhile back. It thought it could read my mind but it was delusional.

Now I'm allll natural...even my typos are my own.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

And we haven't even mentioned bat fucking yet, let alone which definition of bat we're talking about...

I wonder if bats use all-purpose flour for lube...

 

[Voyeurkenneth]

#1 - discrete and discreet - both words - both sound the same when using Speak ‘N Spell - just fucking different meanings

Just found an instance in an otherwise blemish-free story.



Em

The amount of times I’ve had to google this every time I’m at that crossroads

Not so much a typo but the appropriate tense usage for lie vs lay always trips me up

 

[StillStunned]

One that always gets me is public v pubic. I've even had to make the embarrassing call to a client to correct it after I'd sent the text off.

 

[MrPixel]

Capitol vs. capital.

And autocorrect is fuckin’ evil. I spent good money on a nice laptop because I wasn’t allowed to turn off the autocorrect on my wife’s iPad when we were away from home and I wanted to write. The iPad almost became a Frisbee on a couple of occasions.

public v pubic

I told this story a while back:

...there was my wife's work associate who ran the "vidifont" on-screen caption generator at the PBS station they worked at. Back then it was a live, on-air operation. LeRoy was working a beauty pageant presentation, and instead of "Miss Georgia Pageant Presented by Georgia Public Television", it was, you guessed it, "Miss Georgia Pageant Presented by Georgia Pubic Television".

LeRoy was reassigned to something a little less on-air the following day.

 

[alohadave]

autocorrect on my wife’s iPad

iOS has some weird quirks. As long as I've used it, it insists that hell is he'll, and well is we'll.

And each version has it's own autocorrect bug. One I remember well is that it would insert a lowercase a and capitalize the next word. Like I'd type 'food salad', and it'd replace it with 'food a Salad'. I never did figure out what triggered that before the next version introduced a different bug.

 

[Comshaw]

#1 - discrete and discreet - both words - both sound the same when using Speak ‘N Spell - just fucking different meanings

Just found an instance in an otherwise blemish-free story.



Em

WTF???? You have blemish-free stories? Oh hell no! I don't want to hear it! I'll stuff my fingers in my ears and yell NA-NA-NA until I get out of this thread!

Comshaw

 

[Trionyx]

An oldie but a goodie:
A Fucking English Lesson
I keep it handy. Also, as time goes on, I have developed a list of my most common errors which I do a ‘Find’ on before I submit any new story.

 

[ElectricBlue]

iOS has some weird quirks. As long as I've used it, it insists that hell is he'll, and well is we'll.

Fuck yes, that one shits me no end, always having to delete the apostrophe.

I tried turning mine off once, which was actually worse, because it made me realise just how much I use predictive, even if it's bloody annoying at times.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

And then, with "d" and "f" adjacent on the keyboard, a typo from hitting the wrong key could give your story a whole new twist:

"Fuck!" Jim shouted as he caught sight of the distant sniper taking aim. Belle responded immediately, throwing herself onto the ground.
(And a tale of partisans fighting the invaders becomes a story of lustful passion aroused in the face of death.) or

"That was some impressive diddling," Belle said as Jim finished his virtuoso performance.
(And a story of a violin solo becomes one of a different art form.)

 

[cadeauxxx]

medieval as medevil.

amateur as amature.

 

[CalebZhass]

#1 - discrete and discreet - both words - both sound the same when using Speak ‘N Spell - just fucking different meanings

Just found an instance in an otherwise blemish-free story.



Em

Gosh, when I am tired, I can horribly mistype words. I usually catch them in my rereads, but sometimes, especially in late night forum posts, I read them again the next morning only to realize the horrible mistakes and errors I left in them.

I guess it's because English is but a second language to me, so my incorrect internal (I wish it were just internal) pronunciation of the word makes the other part of the brain jump to the wrong entry when my fingers are looking for the muscle memory of how to type it out.

Then there are types times (effin happened again, just now) when I start to get micro-sleeps as I type and wake up to realize I now have to delete 20 pages of a single character I was pressing while editing somewhere in the middle of a paragraph The fun life of being a constantly sleep deprived restless activity addict.

 

[NoTalentHack]

“A broken cock is right twice a day?”

No. No, it is not.

 

[NoTalentHack]

Fuck yes, that one shits me no end, always having to delete the apostrophe.

I tried turning mine off once, which was actually worse, because it made me realise just how much I use predictive, even if it's bloody annoying at times.

For me, it was “fir.” I tended to fat-finger “for” with “dir,” which it always tried to correct it to “fir.” I had to go into the autocorrect dictionary and manually tell it that I NEVER mean “fir,” and always “for,” which has made this very hard to type in in my iPhone.