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A typographical error, or typo, is a mistake made during the typing process. The term includes errors due to mechanical failure or slips of the hand or finger, but excludes errors of ignorance. Generally, errors of several characters may be accepted as typos, but gross misspellings and misuse of punctuations are not accepted.
However, it is common to find the word typo used as a euphemism to describe instances of poor spelling, punctuation or grammar, such as subconsciously typing a homophone. Typographical errors typically manifest in the form of an additional or missing character, or the switching of two characters.
When documenting typos, people will often include the phrase "
[sic]" to indicate that an error was in the original quoted source and there was not a transcription error. The use of an
asterisk, or several asterisks, after a word in
instant messaging programs is commonly used to show that the word it followed (or preceded) was a correction of a previous typographical error. For example:
Person A: That movie I watched today was so aweome!
Person A: Awesome***
Person B: Yeah, it was!
Image:01-10-07 1102.jpg "lick the browse button," a typo for "click the browse button" (example submitted by author).
Contents
- 1 Intentional errors
- 1.1 “taht si bset thign evar!!!!1111oneoneone”
- 1.2 “pwned”
- 1.3 “Studnet”
- 1.4 “The Grauniad”
- 2 See also
- 3 External links
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Intentional errors
The emergence of
Usenet and the
World Wide Web as popular forms of mass communication brought many people who are not skilled typists but have a lot to say. Typos and
misspellings are therefore common and some have found certain notoriety as
in-jokes among Internet groups and subcultures. This use is intentional, so by definition they should no longer be accepted as legitimate typos. Some popular examples follow.
“taht si bset thign evar!!!!1111oneoneone”
Users who are careless about their fast, emotional postings to Web forums have sometimes brought on ridicule with similar "errors" by others in follow-up or stereotypical postings. The ridicule is not usually directed solely at the original poster's typing ability, but also their impatience and carelessness to contribute a meaningful posting. This has included:
- The misspelling of the as teh, combined with bad grammar and similar misspellings
- The excited act of typing a consistent series of exclamation marks, with the failure to properly hold down the Shift key (resulting in a string of characters like "!!!11"). This typo is the result of releasing the Shift key while the 1 key (Shift+1 produces "!" on a QWERTY keyboard) is still pressed down. Such ridicule is usually exaggerated by the replacement of "1" characters with literal "one"'s in a similar string; e.g.: "OMG that is sooo interesting!!!1!one!"
- Use of SMS language and Internet slang
Despite syntactical similarities, this form of intentional mistyping is not directly related to leetspeak. The intentional replacement of choice characters in leetspeak usually has the intention of obfuscation rather than ridicule. This form of mis-typing is most directly related to the fictional character (pseudo) B1FF from the early days of Usenet.
“pwned”
A well-known term in the Internet gaming sub-culture is pwned. A popular theory of its etymology is that the proximity of the O and P keys on a QWERTY keyboard caused the accidental typing — and subsequent publishing — of pwned instead of owned (a declaration of domination over an opponent) in a popular multi-player video game.
“Studnet”
A common internet typo for student. Netizens who use the word, whether intentionally or not, may receive humorous replies referencing a fictitious network of studs, of which a "Studnet ID" is highly regarded.[citation needed]
“The Grauniad”
For a case outside the sphere of the Internet, the British newspaper The Guardian is sometimes referred to as The Grauniad for its alleged frequent typesetting errors in the era before computer typesetting, from a joke claiming that the paper misspelled its own name thusly in the masthead.[citation needed]
See also
