Do you edit your posts???
By mipen2006
@mipen2006 (5528)
Australia
January 30, 2007 9:09pm CST
Even though I always edit my posts, sometimes mistakes get through and that annoys me. It's obvious there are a lot of posters on myLot who don't bother, and I find this frustrating. Sometimes it's difficult reading posters who have English as a second language, but I appreciate their efforts, they are trying to express themselves in a second language. However, there are many native English speakers out there who simply can't be bothered. What about you?
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@ljcapps (1925)
• United States
31 Jan 07
I feel the exact same way. There are times where I get going and don't even notice that i've made a mistake, and yeah, it irritates me later when i notice it. But i also have problems understanding posts that are very excessive in their use of shorthand "computerese." b4. u2. ur. Thinks like that. Does it really take that much longer to type it out?
@mipen2006 (5528)
• Australia
31 Jan 07
Agree, I hate it when you read one of your posts and there's a glaring error that you missed. I feel embarrassed, but I don't think the majority of posters here would notice.
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@ljcapps (1925)
• United States
11 Apr 07
I have actually found that if you are using Mozilla Firefox there is a built in spell checker. That way if your fingers are flying and you do mess up as long as you don't immediately hit the post link it will tell you what words you have messed up on. This helps me out quite a bit.
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@Deane_2005 (1644)
• Philippines
31 Jan 07
It's really unavoidable to commit mistakes here because sometimes we type very fast, besides we can't edit out our work here in Mylot. It's really frustrating to see if you had spelling errors in my discussions. I do edit some posts which I had done but many times I don't and I guess it was really my mistakes. But hoping next time we can edit out our work here in Mylot.
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@mipen2006 (5528)
• Australia
31 Jan 07
I'm happy for you that you're a very fast typist. I'm afraid I use the HUNT system, that's press one key and then hunt for the next. Mistakes tend to be overlooked when you're editing your own work. However, it's obvious that some posters are too anxious to get their next entry in to worry about their correctness.
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@freak369 (5112)
• United States
15 Jun 07
I use Firefox so it has a built in spell checker but there are times when I will type in the wrong word like "just" instead of "justify" and it won't catch that - I do read over my posts before I submit them but there have been times when I missed something and it irks me to no end that you can't edit it once you have submitted it.
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@Zelmarq (12607)
• Cebu City, Philippines
14 Apr 07
Im sorry to tell you I dont edit my posts, thats why as you have noticed I have lots of mistakes on most of my posts. Yikes, I willt ry to edit it by the next time I post.
