Whats in a W ord? Would a nose smell as sweet as a rose?

I make lots of mistakes as my fingers are a little stiff - especially in the mornings. I don't mind if people make errors in typing. I will re read my discussion but often it is hard to proof read oneself. I won't be around for another week but just wanted to answer your discussion

Nose instead of rose. I do that sometimes too. I even re-read it before I post and still miss something. I felt silly. We are only human after all. I have seen such horrible English usage on here that your little mistake stands pretty enemic compared to it. I wouldn't worry too much about it.

I do that too and find it embarrassing especially now that I am taking English and writing classes. Or another thing I miss is not making a letter in capitalization, like my recent post about my scholarship. I put "i won" When I saw the lower case "i" all I could do was shake me head...

well people always in a hurry and i can understand that if the word makes no sense, i will ask the type what the word means done.. everyone could do a mistake

I think sometimes our mind is thinking faster than our typing and that is how the error occurs. With the title of the discussion, I think we miss it because we know what it should read and while we read we skip words. Thus that is how rose ends up being nose. LOL. If we don't read each word that is how we miss the word that should be there instead of the word that we put there. Have a great day Hatley.

AUNTY --Happy birth day to you - Happy birthday to Hatley aunty. Mistakes -- They creep in without our knowledge. I am sure none of us commit mistakes knowingly. It is out of anxiety to post a few numbers within the time we sit before a computer. You can mention about it in the reply comments you are posting or some times others may notice it and post their response.

At least roses and noses both smell. I will however, take the rose. My fingers frequently type what they like, in spite of what I think they should type. I have missed errors until after I have posted. I have also noticed a tendency to read what the author meant even when he put down something else. Funny how our minds and our fingers work.

I check my discussion for typos and other errors but STILL sometimes I come out with a sentence or two that doesn't make sense because of a misspelled word. By the way my dear Hatley, happy birthday! I hope that by the time I'm forty I'll be half as active and intelligent as you are right now in your eighties.

Hi Hatley, typo and grammatical errors happen here everyday and such silly mistakes can be quite confusing but being a veteran mylotter I am immune to such errors. With a bit of common-sense we should be able to figure out what the writer is trying to convey. By self correcting the mistakes I don't see why we can't respond to the post intelligently.

Hatley, I used to type 130 wpm with no errors. I used to be a proofreader and copy editor, a medical proofreader and copy editor, so I HAD to be accurate and catch all mistakes and errors. BUT, these days, I'm lucky to type 80 wpm without any errors and I've posted so many posts and discussions with errors that I ONLY catch once it has been posted. I chalk it up to being plain worn out. I used up all the good stuff in my brain and now I'm running on reserves. Being a former proofreader and copy editor, though, gives me an advantage. I'm used to catching things that don't make any sense and change them so they do make sense. So, I never have a problem when I read things here that just don't make sense. If the rest of it makes sense, I can usually "fix" it in my mind. You know, sometimes I fix these things automatically and never consciously realize that there was an error in the first place. So, you don't have to worry about me thinking that your brain has gone bye-bye. I almost never see these typos. Oh, as to the question about how do we miss these things until after they're posted, I believe it's because, when we read them to ourselves before posting, our brains are zooming in on another part of the post and we just gleem over the errors. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

Lots of things I type are nonsense, sometimes even when I type everything correctly Happy Birthday

Everyone has done (down?) it here once or more times im sure. i know i have. and funny thing, once i saw a woman post how we like to eat baby and cant remember what she said she meant to put. she was very embarrassed. so glad i didnt do that one. ive gotten to where i read my whole thing through before i post. because of that. lol.

dear Hatley, It happens to me dear and of course it gives me a good laugh that I want to knock my head and tell myself "ugh...read first before submitting" hehehee. Same thing when posting my response as I don't have the habit of re-reading it before posting...error...error...can make us laugh anyway

I do that sometimes, but I usually am watching the screen, so I see the error before I post... however.. I have made some mistakes and not noticed them until later... I get kind of embarrassed and either apologize or ask for it to be taken down so I can rewrite it.

I hate to respond on my phone, not only is it hard to type on it, but it also gives some really strange auto-correct suggestions and you have to stop your pattern of typing to keep them from auto-correcting!

Hi hatley... In my discussions, there are all noses instead of roses. English is not my native language nor i learnt it. Whatever i know in English, is only by my practice. Mylot platform has made my English perfect to some extend. So, Where are my roses? Have a nice time.

For me just said sorry so that he understand maybe they said it is your choice so be good as long as you live as a imperfect human no one had no wrong in our life the important is you worship the true God Jehovah so that things would be okay in your life.

Hahaha...madam I remember when my title was very wrong I want to say two big snakes in my house but I was write two big snacks in my house and one is 10 feet long everyone who is responding on my discussion first laughed and think ohhh 10 feet long snacks but when read they understand some spelling mistake so some time mistake is also a reason of smile or happiness. Madam here I read one discussion of PPE friend and I know today is your birthday. Few minutes before I talked with Professor uncle they also told me same. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU DEAR MADAM.

One smells at rose with his nose.I guess you thought of nose in the subconscious ,when you typed the rose.I lose count of how many typos in my discussions though I look over it before posting it.It is hard for us that are just a little over sixty to avoid it,let alone you are already 85.

It seems correct in our heads but there are so many things that can go wrong during the process of it being transferred from our brains to the computer. Keyboard error, we could jumble it up in our heads etc. I guess it just goes to show that we should always recheck.