Whats In A Letter or I Hated Your Posts lol lol
@Hatley (163772)
Garden Grove, California
October 11, 2016 7:40pm CST
Edit edit edit so readers wlll not have a fit
Please inform me of unseen error
I assure you I will not get in a snit
I now reread a post in terror
Once I hurt a mylot friend by error
I received a post back by upset friend
She said Im hurt you hated my posts
I was shocked as I had not said that?
I read my post to her in horror
I had written I Hate your posts
I meant I rate your posts highly
But I had hit an h not an r
So I apologied to her told her
I hit the wrong letter I meant rated
She forgave me but called meTypo queen
That spurred me to edit, edit and edit.
So remember your power to please
:Lies in really great editing
The wrong letter changes meaning
For example say thanks mother
Not thanks you bother.
One origina poem and graphic by P Hatley
copyrighted 2016
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@marguicha (229607)
• Chile
12 Oct 16
This is something that always happens to me
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@marguicha (229607)
• Chile
12 Oct 16
@Hatley THere are some hours of the day when my fingers (and brain?) are more clumsy
@LovingMyBabies (85292)
• Valdosta, Georgia
12 Oct 16
It happens to all of us at times Hatley. You just do the best you can and don't worry about it.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
15 Oct 16
I try and reread things, but sometimes still find errors later
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@cindiowens (5120)
• North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
12 Oct 16
Even a misplaced comma can change the whole meaning of a sentence.
She has freckles on her, but she is pretty.
She has freckles on her but, she is pretty.
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@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
12 Oct 16
oh my I was drinking coffee and almost choked but thats a really good point too lol lol lol he he
@Happy2BeMe (99356)
• Canada
12 Oct 16
It is so easy to make a typo that changes the whole meaning of what you are trying to say it. I have done it a few times.
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@Shellyann36 (11383)
• United States
12 Oct 16
Oh, I love the name "Typo Queen"! When we were all over at the B site, one of my friends wrote something totally negative on one of my posts. Unfortunately, it was not something as easily fixed as a typo. I kind of think that this particular person was on some sort of medication that made them loopy at the time. I got an apology and the person deleted it from my post.
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@MarshaMusselman (38893)
• Midland, Michigan
12 Oct 16
Sometimes it seems that your keys seem to skip too, but I've had that happen myself once or twice here and there. I would hope that if anyone didn't understand something that they would ask instead of assume. I hope you don't mind when I notice something you could fix to make more plain to your readers? I'm not trying to pick on you, I tend to tell anyone when I notice such things, and I hope that they will tell me too when I write something incorrectly.
Our words may stand through time and I'd think we'd all want to be remembered by what we're saying not just what they think we're saying for that isn't always correct.
I still love your graphics, Patsie. I learned from Gus how to do kaleidoscopes via image I own, but I've not done them much.
@andriaperry (118691)
• Anniston, Alabama
12 Oct 16
I often make typing mistakes even spell check lets them go.
