Funny typos

[Marzipan]

Do you remember any funny typos youy have done or seen lately?

 

I so wanna laugh at other people's expence for a change...

[Sara Alva]

Do you remember any funny typos youy have done or seen lately?

 

I so wanna laugh at other people's expence for a change...

 

Aww, Maria, I love your typos. I really needed to laugh today.

 

When I'm in chat on my iPad, talking to Cia, the autocorrect always changes her name to CIA (central intelligence agency) so it seems like I'm shouting.

 

I was typing my story one day, not looking at the keys, and I shifted my hand one key to the left while typing Jared. It came out as JEWS (hit J properly, then the caps lock, then the rest of the keys one key off). I looked back at my screen and was totally confused until I figured out what had happened.

 

Not as funny as a lamb falling from the ceiling, though

[Fishwings]

Aww, Maria, I love your typos. I really needed to laugh today.

 

When I'm in chat on my iPad, talking to Cia, the autocorrect always changes her name to CIA (central intelligence agency) so it seems like I'm shouting.

 

I was typing my story one day, not looking at the keys, and I shifted my hand one key to the left while typing Jared. It came out as JEWS (hit J properly, then the caps lock, then the rest of the keys one key off). I looked back at my screen and was totally confused until I figured out what had happened.

 

Not as funny as a lamb falling from the ceiling, though

 

 

 

HAahahaha! I hate autocorrect with passion, especially when it corrects the last word of something you are going to post/send/submit. I have an iTouch, and It's changed my "Jeez" into "Jews" and my "give"'s into "HIV" too many times to be funny. And "bussing" apparently isn't a word and needs to be changed to "hissing" and "cussing". Go figure.

 

And btw, we're not alone, check out this site : D. Poor iPhone users...

 

http://damnyouautocorrect.com/category/best-of-dyac/

[carloshern04]

I know it is all in good humor, but it is hard to write. This reminds me of a saying, those that cannot do, criticize!

[Sara Alva]

I know it is all in good humor, but it is hard to write. This reminds me of a saying, those that cannot do, criticize!

 

I don't think laughing at a typo is criticizing. It happens to the best of us, and when it's funny, it's funny.

[Marzipan]

I do appreciate the laughs I earn with my typos, and laugh along since they are many times FUNNY! And I'm not being malicious when asking other peoples typos... You can by all means just put a list of what I have done, since it is a long list! And I don't mind being corrected of the, how else do I learn if I don't see them ?

 

here is one:

 

- Trip over --> tripple

[Sara Alva]

My friend was once searching on google for a Korean bbq restaurant. He typed in Korean bbw (big beautiful women) instead of bbq, and google image gave him some rather large ladies to look at.

[Marzipan]

My friend was once searching on google for a Korean bbq restaurant. He typed in Korean bbw (big beautiful women) instead of bbq, and google image gave him some rather large ladies to look at.

 

 

**does the same google search **

[Bumblebee]

I was trying to spell stubborn... but i kept spelling to stubben - which is a saddle brand lol

[Nephylim]

I type sex a lot.... does that say anything about the way my mind works (I typed words three tilmes before I got works right just then)

 

 

And I called Quonus a grumy old man (i the nicest possible way) then decided that I liked the word and thought up possible meanings.

 

 

[AnytaSunday]

In the interests of a laugh. I have a few typos/ silly wording that I noticed when I went to edit.

 

From Four Doors: (Mystery novel)

 

 

1) ‘I shook his head.’

 

2) ‘I rolled his eyes.’

 

3) ‘Thil was already hanging outside my room.’

 

4) ‘It was tricky to play over the sounds of screaming, but that soon died down and the crowd jumped silently until we’d played our final chord.’

 

(Hmmm, yeah 'cause that's just how I jump too. )

 

 

From “Veined”: YA Fantasy/romance

 

I gave her my I’m-so-stupid-I-forgot-my-pen look.

 

My husbands comment: What look is that?

 

 

Then there are my 'sexy' mistakes, oh dear. Basically these stem from naiveness:

 

Example:

 

She's got spunk.

 

 

Just need to nut something out.

 

(okay, I thought this meant work out a problem)

 

Oh and others a plenty I'm sure.

[Fishwings]

In the interests of a laugh. I have a few typos/ silly wording that I noticed when I went to edit.

 

From Four Doors: (Mystery novel)

 

 

1) ‘I shook his head.’

 

2) ‘I rolled his eyes.’

 

 

 

Took me the longest time to realize that there was actually something wrong with those sentences...

[soup]

My friend and I, who don't know a word of German, were having a conversation over msn in German, via Google Translate. Somehow my "get cracking, boy!" got retranslated into "GET CLEAVAGE, BOY!" XD hahaha awkies. Not exactly a typo though but oh well. I LIKE SHARING.

 

Also not a typo, my Ancient History teacher in high school was talking about how "Julius Ceasar was a great genital". She obviously meant general LOOOOL

[Marzipan]

My friend and I, who don't know a word of German, were having a conversation over msn in German, via Google Translate. Somehow my "get cracking, boy!" got retranslated into "GET CLEAVAGE, BOY!" XD hahaha awkies. Not exactly a typo though but oh well. I LIKE SHARING.

 

Also not a typo, my Ancient History teacher in high school was talking about how "Julius Ceasar was a great genital". She obviously meant general LOOOOL

 

 

Thanks for sharing

[Sara Alva]

I just typed "kindergarten meth review worksheet" into my school computer (instead of MATH review). The safety filter stopped my search results.

[Dark]

At school they call it the "Ritchie" Award, for the faux pas of the year. It stands for Richard Cranium aka Dick Head.

 

This year's award seems determined to go to a teacher who blurted out that she likes 'Dicks' during a meeting about a few troublesome kids.

 

Of course, woe to the teacher who described the kid in question as a 'dick,' and we knew our girl meant that she likes teaching those wacky kids as in she finds them interesting, but ... ai ... dicks, mm?

[Sara Alva]

At school they call it the "Ritchie" Award, for the faux pas of the year. It stands for Richard Cranium aka Dick Head.

 

This year's award seems determined to go to a teacher who blurted out that she likes 'Dicks' during a meeting about a few troublesome kids.

 

Of course, woe to the teacher who described the kid in question as a 'dick,' and we knew our girl meant that she likes teaching those wacky kids as in she finds them interesting, but ... ai ... dicks, mm?

 

At our school-wide professional development before school started, one teacher announced that his favorite part of the summer was going to see Jay Leno when he had "the porn stars" on.

 

After a lot of giggles, we figured out he meant "the pawn stars."

 

Guess our mouths have typos, too.

[Krista]

Heh, I would have been guilty of a few typos in my latest chapter, but my super secret Beta Reader/Editor man found them. I can't remember for sure, but I think one of them was.. "He didn't wave his head.."

[Marzipan]

I started a thread earlier that's titled 'How does a sory come to you?'

 

I was just about to press post, when I noticed in the last possible moment that the title had a typo on it. It said:

 

'How does a story come on to you?' Now would that have been a totally different discussion...

[Sara Alva]

I started a thread earlier that's titled 'How does a sory come to you?'

 

I was just about to press post, when I noticed in the last possible moment that the title had a typo on it. It said:

 

'How does a story come on to you?' Now would that have been a totally different discussion...

 

See, Maria, your typos are the best! lol

[Marzipan]

See, Maria, your typos are the best! lol

 

 

Lol, thaaaanks so much for appreciation! Well, call my English Finglish from now on, k? It's not that bad, when I see those myself, right? Right...

[colinian]

When I was in high school we had a multiple-choice machine-scored proficiency test in freshman biology. It had to be completed using a black pen to fill in a little rectangle next to each answer. Unfortunately, the instructions read: "When told to do so, take out your penis and begin the test." Apparently no one, including our teacher, had looked at the instruction sheet or noticed the typo. It took her about five minutes to get us calmed down enough to actually start taking the test. But it turned out to be a complete failure because every few minutes someone would start to giggle or laugh and the whole class would be laughing hysterically. We never did take this test, and this typo was considered the funniest thing to happen at school that semester.

 

Colin

[C James]

Sometimes, typos end up in really inopportune places.

 

In one story, in a very critical, romantic scene, a central character in the scene is shirtless.

 

Only... the author left the "r" out of shirtless, which totally wrecked the whole feel of the scene. :wacko:

 

And yep, the fumble fingered author mentioned above is me.

[TalonRider]

We all know that you use hooves to type with.

[colinian]

My problem with typos is trusting the spell checker. A close reading of a story doesn't guarantee that I'll catch typos; since I wrote the story I know what a word is supposed to be and my mind skips right over the typo substituting the correct correct word. I've found that my editors can do the same because they've become familiar with the story. Having someone who's never read the story read it has helped, but even that doesn't guarantee that all typos will be caught.

 

I guess typos are part of writing. It's still very embarrassing when someone writes to tell me about typos they've found in my stories.

 

Colin