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Do typos annoy me? Hell yeah.

5/18/2017

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In menus. In billboards. On signs at the grocery store.

Typos. They’re freaking everywhere. And I can’t help but notice them.

My husband and I used to go to a restaurant where they had “shimp scampi” on the menu. Now, I love shrimp... but because of that typo, I refused to order it. And we don’t go to that restaurant anymore. Not because of the typo... because we moved away. But still.
2 days ago I was horrified that the diner I was having lunch at spelled the appetizer section of the menu with 2 Zs—Appetizzers. Nope. The double letter is in the P, not the Z, pals.

Yet, when you point out typos, you wind up looking like the asshole and not the person MAKING the typo. In one of the business Facebook groups I’m a member of, someone was proudly displaying their new marketing images: complete with an extraneous apostrophe that shouldn’t have been there. When I pointed it out, they quipped that their next marketing image should be that “______ make mistakes.” Um, sure. A simple “thank you for saving me from looking like an idiot to my clients” would have sufficed.

A coworker asked me if I can turn off my editing hat. The short answer is No, but I’ve learned to somewhat ignore the more benign typos I’ve seen in my day-to-day life. Otherwise I would probably go insane.

—Hilary Parry Haggerty
www.hilaryparry.com

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1/6/2018 03:26:42 pm

It must be really a bothersome. As an individual who learns and talks about words and whose life is like a machine that you kept on seeing, it really is a bothersome. But I believe that this kind of persons is called geniuses. For they are able to see errors that cannot be easily seen. I think that your skills can help contribute in our nation. Apply to industries who preferred. There are a lot of them nowadays. Thank you so much.

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