Typos/grammar errors

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So, I'm not sure if I'm the only one in existence who feels rage every time a typo is spotted, but what's weird that I noticed is that this seems to increase under stress. Once I watched an animation clip that I thoroughly just loved, and incidentally I later noticed (at about the fifth viewing) that it contained multiple typos (I wouldn't mind too much because the creators weren't even native English).

The thing that annoys me most is a missing apostrophe in "it's". Most times these are omitted not because the writer doesn't know how to spell them, but simply due to their laziness (I assume), and I'm annoyed because if I spend some time reading what someone wants to communicate they should spend some time thinking about their writing, and not write as if they're eating pizzas (just an impression of mine... also, whenever I see typos I kind of think that these people must stink, because lazy people likely don't shower).

I've just created this topic because it appears that every article or forum post I read today has at least one typo... oh, and BBC News? They seem to employ five year olds as journalists, nearly a typo on every single article and they won't even thank you if you send an email informing them of it.

Perhaps you become too emotionally involved with the mistakes of others. What you are railing against is in fact an aspect of some of the issues which brought many members on this site here in the first place, and which you are openly reproaching them for.

Yes, it is somewhat irksome to note grammatical errors and such. But it does not always speak to a laziness on the writer's part so much as absent-mindedness or ignorance of linguistic conventions.

Also, bear in mind that this is the internet. As much as I loathe them, fashionable abbreviations can be trusted to abound.

I've always said the Internet makes everyone lazy typists. I guess that's partially true. Some people know how it's done, but just want to get the message across quickly, taking some evil shortcuts that the readers would understand regardless. Other people read so many of the lazy text that they might actually believe that's the correct way of doing it (I guess).

Things that really annoy me are:

I hate it when people abbreviate things (the "internet language" or "text talk" I call it). I always say "If you're not gonna take the time to type everything out, then I'm not gonna take the time to read it."

Typos do bother me but not as much as that. Most computers do have a spell check and when posting it is not like talking where there is a time limit. I do wish some people would take the time to look over their posts to make shure everybody can understand it.

I also hate big "walls of text". Where there are no double spaced lines for like 5 or more lines making it extremely hard to read.

People annoy me when they use grammer errors, like ''there'', ''their'' and ''they're'', or ''your'' and ''you're'', and so on. But that's because I am a good speller. Perhaps someone who is good at maths will look at my maths and go, ''God, for Christ sake, why can't she get it right, it's not that hard!'' But it is to me.

(Also I get annoyed when people forget to close the bracket....

I'm good at grammar and so on but I've noticed that if I get emotionally roused, my spelling and typing are awful. I've decided to let that happen and hope to correct it. That's when I had to let others do it too.

When I read for pleasure, I don't see the words. They all get translated into images more like a movie in my head. It's a real problem when someone asks me to recite back what I've read. If it wasn't dialogue, I generally can't do it. I also don't tend to remember character names, even in a book that I just finished reading. I form a mental picture early on and the names get converted into that image when I read.

However, when I hit a typo, it's like that stereotypical needle across the record, "scrrrreeettttccchhhh" and a hard stop. I lose the flow and immediately land back in the physical words themselves instead of the images. As a result, I find typos to be very jarring and disruptive. If it's in a book that I'm going to re-read (like a text book or other reference), I have to make the correction or I'll continually stumble over it.

they're are going to be Peoples that get there panties all up in thier over this. But thats you're problem. so, i Axe youse: does bad grammers and spelings piss U off. eye s'pose that if you's sombodies that gets bugged real easy. then, it would of got irritatin quick.

My head hurts just from typing that.

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Never could figure out how to use proper grammar or punctuation to me it's overrated.

Typos & bad grammar eat me alive, too. Sigh. There's nothing that can be done about it. It's everywhere - bus terminals, ads on TV, newspapers, company slogans, billboards. Very irritating. Just one of those ugly things you have to grin & bear with, like bullies, thugs and mosquitoes.

I prefer to read in English because I am not as good as in French (my first language), so I spend less time correcting the author's mistakes or blocking on the punctuaction.

Well, its not the Internet per se, but I make a ton of Typos when I am typing an emotional response or something I have a lot of knowledge or experience, with..
My mind out paces my fingers. Literally. Also, I never was a great typist even before WPs & PCs came along. Used to be strictly hunt & peck frankly.
I really should do more editing. But I find typos less irksome than the tendency these days to use terms in combos or made-up adjective like "Ginormous" That is not EVEN a real word, for God's sake!!
I actually try to avoid a lot of contractions, since I do not like making mistakes like the OP mentions.. LOL

Sincerely,
Matthew

Typos and grammar mistakes really irk me. Always have, and no doubt always will. What really bugs me is when people don't use apostrophes correctly or use the wrong form of a word.