[ SECRET POST #2937 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2937 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

My favourite ever internet typo was a Facebook status update which then made the rounds as a screen cap.

Picture the scene: Christmas Eve in a normal suburban home. A young girl can barely contain her joy.

"Grandma is raping the gifts next door! I'm so excited!"

Every year at my house, we still get excited when it's time to start raping the presents.

I couldn't find the exact link, but have a compilation instead: http://postgradproblems.com/yes-people-are-still-raping-presents-on-twitter/

I get your point about the typos in your dearly beloved Laurell K. Hamilton books being balanced out by the correct usage you saw elsewhere. That's what I thought would happen again now. However, it seems like the current generation overwhelmingly reads material on the internet in places with bad spelling (badfic, twitter etc) as opposed to properly edited writing elsewhere. There was a tipping point somewhere that was crossed.

I'm not saying that pre-internet, everyone could spell well. If anything, I have the feeling that literacy has gone up slightly overall, purely because more people write facebook statuses now than ever used to write letters on a regular basis. It's the professional-level writing occupations (journalists, reviewers, technical writers such as for catalogues and manuals) that have suffered a drop in basic spelling ability because they're interacting daily with those who spell wrongly, whereas they didn't before. Democratisation of the internet is a powerful tool in both directions.