I feel I owe an apology to everyone that I make crazy with all my typos.
It’s due to a combination of having to use an iPhone and (I suspect) the need for new, more effective glasses. My typos drive ME nuts so I can imagine how they must affect everyone else.
Since the situation won’t be changing soon (can’t afford internet AND a phone, nor do I have the resources for new glasses rught now) all I can do is say I’m sorry and thank you for all your patience. (I’m still luckier than millions in this country, so please don’t think I think I should be pitied. Hell, I have a roof ove my head and an iPhone. It COULD easily be much worse!!)
But I’m still going to post and that means more of the same old same old. I just figured I owe you good people an apology and a big thank you for your patience and tolerance. And a warning that it probably won’t be getting better anytime soon.
AM
And because I think this song fits us so well, here you go (explanation of what I mean directly below):
Lunatic fringe is a term used to characterize members of a political or social movement as extremists with eccentric or fanatical views. The term was popularized by Theodore Roosevelt, who wrote in 1913 that, "Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe."[1]
[1] Safire, William (2008). Safire's Political Dictionary. Oxford University Press. p. 405. ISBN 9780195343342.
Comments
A roof ove my head? WTH is that!?!
Just kidding, Amanda. Your posts are always thought provoking and informative. Typos or not, I for one am very glad that you post here!
--Ante Penultimate
Thank you! That alleviates some of the
embarrassment.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Not sure if title is ironic...
"apilogy" --> "apology"
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." -- Albert Bartlett
"A species that is hurtling toward extinction has no business promoting slow incremental change." -- Caitlin Johnstone
No. Just a typo.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Just so you know...
I fixed a typo in your title.
As editor I do try to correct typos when I see them, but sumtimes they do sneak by me.
If you had to clean up all my posts you
Wouldn’t get anything else done. You’ve come ti my assistance many times I suspect. I know you help me with embedding Tweets.
THANK YOU. You help is greaty and sincerely appreciated!
EDIT: fixed ‘else done’ (I forget what it was before I fixed it)
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Keep them coming.
They're amusing.
Apparently, in the story above, Jared Kushner has an 'olace'.
I wonder what that is?
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Hmmm. I wonder about that myself.
Someday I’ll have internet again and then WATCH OUT!
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
@Bollox Ref
I wonder if an olace could be a large, open place in the brain, suitable for carrying cash or small valuables? Olace for short? He's supposed to be a billionaire, right? So I'll bet he always has money on his mind, as they almost never seem to have 'enough'.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
I assumed it was a sacred garment.
@Pluto's Republic
Lol, found it; olace, available only in India, as stated here:
https://www.drugs.com/international/olace.html
along with virtually nothing else but a link to here, for drugs in which it's an ingredient:
https://www.drugs.com/ingredient/olanzapine.html
So I suppose that I was partially right-ish, or at least roughly headed in the right direction, as in that case, he therefore has anti-psychotic drugs on his brain, as well as money.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Please don't worry about your typos, Amanda
if you make them then that means that you are human. I would have so many typos that my posts wouldn't be readable if I didn't have autocorrect on my Ipad. But I have to watch carefully when aurocorrect writes something that sounds like an alien wrote it. What I would like it to do is fix my grammar errors. I keep post :is, isn't: when it should be :are and aren't: and people have given me a pass on sounding like a hick.
Heh, I'm writing this from my computer and I keep waiting for it to suggest the words I'm typing
there are times that my Ipad writes the sentence for me which shows that I'm repeating myself too much.
Just keep writing. I appreciate you.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
Thank you.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
I'm constantly correcting my comments
and I don't see that changing. I read what you mean!
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Common language
Amanda, there's no problem as it's evident most here at C99 speak, read, and write fluent Typoese.
At least you guys sound like you were born on
this planet. I sound like
EDIT: born dammit. Not birn
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
If it was me,
I'd be blaming the typos on the Russians.
I'm great at multi-tasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at the same time.
I know what you mean, Amanda.
I too use a smartphone, a Samsung 6.
The one thing I've noticed is you and some others admit your "edits" at the end of your posts while I just rely on the multible "@" at the beginning to indicate how many edits I or anyone have made.
Just wondering which method is right and proper.
I do try to re-read every post before I hit the save button but sometimes I gloss ove mistakes.
I actually missed the "ove" in your post twice. heh heh.
I'm glad there are no grammer police here.
Keep on keeping on, Amanda.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
I frequently edited my comments
If it's just for typos or sentence structures, I erase the additional numbers. But if I add something more to my comment, I'll put in that I edited it.
Is this acceptable, JtC? I don't see the value for having someone's name plastered multiple times in the comments.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
What typos?
Looks OK to me.
Oh you sweet sweet Snode.
Just curious, English is your first language, right?
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
@Amanda Matthews Actually, I'm fluent
Actually, I'm fluent in Dyslexian,(though not recognized as a language when i was a kid)where p,q and g,and b and d dance in mirrors and whole words and phrases attain symmetry that isn't there. Also can't tell (or remember) jokes to save my life. I loved to read and sometimes words would float for months or years until they finally attained full being, but looking at before and after, and the whole, got the idea. So keep on tipying.
Found this a while ago on the music parody site http://www.amiright.com/ that kind of says it.
Dyslexian Typios
"Mexican Radio" - Wall Of Voodoo
I wield teh keyboard - then I falter
I see how much of the words taht I alter
‘Cus every fifth wrod makes a blunder
My digits taunt me - my head’s all dunder
I fear taht dozen words I’m using
I find divi ded orever fusing
I’m always poking all teh wrong keys
A wonderland of backspaced PC
I’ve got dyslexian typios
I’ve got dyslexian uh oh! typios
My typing is an aberration
I balk about my useless mistakin’
An ampersand’s just a little’un
No more &evenses - I need Ritalin
I’ve got dyslexian typios
I’ve got dyslexian uh oh! typios
I’ve got dyslexian typios
I’ve got dyslexian uh oh! typios
I miss in spelling ‘Tiajuana’
,stead of ,postrophes - put comma
I make a mess when I IM home
It looks like pidgin Eskimo
I failed at Hot Chat when I told ‘er
“I’d like to tuck you up on a moulder”
My proper meaning cannot convey
It’s all unplanned much ot my dimsay
I’ve got dyslexian typios
I’ve got dyslexian uh oh! typios
I’ve got dyslexian typios
I’ve got dyslexian uh oh! typios
Rdaio? Radoi? Ardio? Raido? Rdaio? Radoi? Ardio? Raido?
I’ve got dyslexian typios
I’ve got dyslexian uh oh! typios
I’ve got dyslexian typios
I’ve got dyslexian uh oh! typios
(Typios, typios)
What’s the screen say?
You do NOT owe us an apology
You have been writing and posting many informative and thought provoking essays on a regular basis. That is far more valuable than anything else. Essays are gold. Typos are minutia. Keep posting and do not worry about the typos. We all make them, especially me.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Typos never bother me
Think-o’s are what drives me crazy.
"Please clap." -- Jeb Bush
Amanda--I've never noticed. Actually, I thought
that 'I' held the record for edits/corrections.
Hey, I very much appreciate your writing--please don't sweat making an occasional correction. Everyone does it. BTW, I enjoy the topics that you tackle--particularly since they are often complex or controversial ones.
Mollie
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."--Lao Tzu
Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.
Everyone gets a visit from Typoman now and then
It's all a part of trying to perform extremely complex maneuvers on a keyboard while simultaneously trying to think what to say.
(Typoman = the little demon who makes your fingers make wrong strokes.)
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
Lol, personally, I always
Lol, personally, I always look for your posts and appreciate them, (even if I don't always agree with all of everything in them, people all having different viewpoints/interpretations and everyone never agreeing with everyone else on everything,) and am obviously not nit-picky enough to care about any typos. But how the heck do you think this apology for your occasional typos makes some of the rest of us (me, lol) feel?
Signed, The Typo Queen. (You'll never win my crown! ROFLMAO)
Seriously, anyone looking for typos in an online site rather than reading is kinda missing the point of information exchange. Something you supply beautifully.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Thank you. Thank you very much.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
@Amanda Matthews
Thank you, actually. You're one of those I'd consider essential to the site, which generally runs a high standard.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.