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It's not good manners to point out spelling mistakes, but it took me a while to go from "acetic" (vinegar-like?) to "ascetic".
by prionassembly 5y ago
It's not good manners to point out spelling mistakes, but it took me a while to go from "acetic" (vinegar-like?) to "ascetic".
- jlengrand 5y agoI kinda like the typo, it gives a very poetic / double meaning to the sentence :)
- barrkel 5y agoIf someone makes the same spelling mistake repeatedly, it's not a typo, and IMO it's better to point it out, because they're probably carrying it over into more professional contexts and it affects how they're perceived. Obviously in a personal context you'd try and do something like that in private, not in a group, but that's not really an option here. If I repeatedly misspell something, or repeatedly use a validly spelled word in place of a homonym, I want to know.
- HKH2 5y agoAt some point, prescription is required for a language to be preserved. If we're all online, then that's where it has to be.
- pontifier 5y agoIt's a word I use so infrequently that I was unaware that I misspelled it. Thank you.