Dutch wrote:
> "ant and dec" > wrote
>> Dutch wrote:
> [..]
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>>>> Typographical error:
>>>>
>>>> A typographical error or typo is a mistake made during the typing
>>>> process. The term includes errors due to slips of the hand or finger and
>>>> also mechanical failure, but excludes errors of ignorance. However, it's
>>>> common to find the word "typo" used as a euphemism to describe instances
>>>> of poor spelling, punctuation or grammar.
>>>>
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographical_error
>>>>
>>>> "A typo" was used in this euphemistic sense, as I guess you know, but
>>>> you try to score empty and hollow virtual points with it nevertheless.
>>> No, a valid point.
>>>
>>> If you meant to acknowledge that it was an example of poor spelling,
>>> punctuation or grammar then what was the point of the reply?
>> The point was to inform you that I used the word typo as a common
>> euphemism, and to educate you about the use of that word.
>
> I meant what was the point of originally referring to the error as a "typo"?
> If your meaning of typo includes a euphemistic reference to spelling and
> grammatical errors then such a reply is meaningless. He was *saying* that
> you made a spelling error. Obviously you meant "typo" to imply that it was
> not a spelling or grammar error, but just a slip of the finger.

"A typo" was used in a euphemistic sense to describe my error. You are
seeing things as YOU are not as THEY are; you do not have the ability to
determine what I meant, other than what YOU read.

What makes it obvious what I meant?

How did I imply anything by stating "A typo". - The meaning of those two
words is conjured up in YOUR mind from YOUR experience, and may have no
reference to what I meant by it. I have explained what I meant by it,
with the aid of a commonly understood and published meaning of the
phrase; accept that and stop making fool of yourself.



In other
> words, "ME? commit such a mistake? NEVER! C'mon fess up, you hate admitting
> when you make a mistake.
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