I'm Just Too Busty At The Moment
I bet that title got your attention. You weirdo.
I'm sure we've all got words we seem to type consistently wrongly. For me it's the word busy (a word I've been using in emails more and more of late), which I always seem to type busty (maybe because of the proximity of the T to the Y on the keyboard). The result is emails that start something like:
Sorry about the late reply. I am very busty at the moment.
Luckily I manage to trap most of the typos as I very rarely send an email without re-reading it first (especially those of a business nature). Whenever I correct this typo I always chuckle to myself at the mental picture of having breasts so large it's hard to send emails.
Out of curiosity I just did a search on my sent items folder for "busty" and it's worrying how many times I've let the typo slip through. I just hope the people who received the email saw the funny side and/or knew it was a typo.
Another typo I seem to keep making is leaving the C out of onclick when adding JavaScript to HTML elements. Wondering why the event doesn't fire I return the HTML to see I've added an onlick event. That too makes me laugh to myself as I imagine somebody licking their screen (you have to find amusement somewhere when working alone for so long in an office).
onlick="alert('Stop licking the screen you weirdo!')"
Any of you lot have any funny typos you keep making?
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I often find myself using HTML in business emails.
So far, I have managed to avoid sending any. The spell checker is my gatekeeper.
'Bets Regrads' was an old favourite in the days of R3 and a fax server! These days I spell check everything before it goes out - just in case! Code wise I rely (heavily) on the autocomplete in R7 - a godsend for picking up "myview.Rfresh" type errors!
There's a couple I make:
1) Signing off on an email as:
"Thanks and Retards"
2) Signing off quick in a flurry at the keyboard sees my name appear as "Raty" or "Rat"
3) I overheard some colleagues talking about "Ray's Error". After about 15 minutes I got annoyed thinking my coding couldn't be that bad !
It turned out they were talking about "RaiseError"
One of my best friends once sent out a mail to the whole company with a subject that said 'Dick capacity issue' when the hard disk on his server was almost full.
Apparently people still remind him of that though it's been at least 8 years since that happened...
LOL!! omg that is awesome.
I TEnd To LEave THe CAps BUtton DOwn TOo LOng SOmetimes.
For some reason "and" becomes "nad" which could be freudian. Mind you the effects of working with Sys32,34,38,38 and sundry As400 and iSeries OS's has had it's toll. Drpng odd vwels frm wrds has bcme ndmic. And sending emails that contain "sndmsg me when the Q is clr" is quite common.
I never look at my keyboard while typing. A while back I switched to the ergonomic keyboard and started to hit the keys next to the ones I had intended. I still do. Often.
The most common one:
Always hit 's' instead of 'd' when typing add.
It's not that funny, especially when some of us are dyslexic.
Please do not make cheap gags at my exponse.
My typo isn't so much an issue with typing a word incorrectly, it's my own name. For some reason I've found that I'm ending my emails with "-Seam". A co-worker actually had to stop by my desk and ask me if I've recently changed my name. I felt like such a dunce.
Some years ago I sent an email to several users apologizing for a software problem. I ended the message, I though, with "I hope the problem didn't caused you any inconvenience."
Of course I ran the Notes spell check, used it's suggestions to correct my many spelling errors and hit "Send".
Several days latter my boss commented to me that my idea of humor wasn't always appropriate. When I looked blank he mentioned the message I'd sent out to, among others, his boss.
When I reviewed the saved copy I found that it said, "I hope the problem didn't caused you any incontinence."
That would be a bad software bug now wouldn't it.
Peace,
Rob:-]
... did anyone else read the title of this entry as "busy", or was that just me?
Clicked through and was thinking "weirdo?!" when I re-read the title and had a "ohhhhhhhhh.... huh?!" moment.
Sorry Alan. I've nothing against dyslexics (why so hard to spell though?). In fact I knew one once. He died though. Choked on his own Vimto after selling his soul to Santa. Bum bum.
Jake
None of this as funny as above, but when I switched to Dvorak, for a long time I made a lot of mistakes transposing a and o as they are right next to each other. Where Qwerty has asdfg, Dvorak has aoeui. So any fat-fingering there results in a moronic looking transpositioning of vowels. After three years of having the keys in the wrong places, I have memorized the layout so I don't have to look down anymore, but I still rigorously recheck [b]most[/b] of what I type.
Not a typo but a topic you've touched on. (Sort of like a typo)
This weekend alone...
1/ Edited the Client Javascript instead of web (please change this IBM) and wondered why the hell nothing changed on the web...suspected cache tore my hair out.
Put WQS agents on the WQO spot...Twice! Debugger running..fine...rewrite agent...2 hours later...sigh!
My worst was when conducting an early windows course I was teaching people how to highlight without using the mouse. I wrote on the board that they needed to hold down the shit key.
The other bad typo was during a policy email where I said that the company condones such behaviour (instead of does not condone). What made it funnier was that my manager read and approved it before it went out.
I once sent out an email enterprise wide that said "Sorry for the Incontinence" instead of "Sorry for the inconvenience"
Spell checker worked but I choose the wrong word.
I love that the Notes spellchecker can change things so amusingly. For instance, it changes "helpdesk" into "helpless". Imagine trying to send "please ask the helpdesk people for assistance" and agreeing to the spellcheckers recommendations...
Mine is putting 'not' instead of 'now' (and 'w' and 't' aren't even next to each other, so it's definitely Freudian).
Always when we have a system crash or application problem - 'all staff' -
'just to let you know the xyz system is not working'
Of course, it should be 'is now working', and of course I get 25 emails saying 'tell me something we didn't know!'
On a more serious note, you might try using TextExpander (Mac) or Texter (Win) to auto-correct specific frequent misspellings like that.
{Link}
{Link}
My big one is that my maiden name is Carlsen, so I have a lot of user id's that are pcarlse or pcarlsen
I tend to type pcarsle or pcarslen.
Which is not really funny except that my 8 year old nephew used to say his last name as Carslen. He once argued with me that it is NOT Carlsen, rather Carslen. I looked at my brother and he just shrugged. Once he learned to read he grew out of it and says it correctly now.
It makes me laugh and I think of him every time I do it.
GAU is an abbreviation for a province in South Africa. "Gauteng" actually. Sooo .. I've ended up sending way too many business emails that refers to the GAY Travel Requisitions application instead of the GAU Travel Requisitions application. hahaha. And many strange reponses I've received because of this too!
I struggle to type the word "note" without adding an "s" at the end. Brainwashed I suppose.
Earlier this week, one of my users sent me an email stating she would "wet up" a meeting to discuss an issue. This alongwith the "Dick Capacity Issues" comment above may generate an email along the lines of "I would wet up a meeting to resolve the dick capacity issues" instead of "I would soon set up a meeting to discuss the disk capacity issues"!!!