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> How you bank can screw you over This is the first heading 3 paragraphs into the article (note the typo in "you"). Do people ... not even read their own writi

> How you bank can screw you over This is the first heading 3 paragraphs into the article (note the typo in "you"). Do people ... not even read their own writing before publishing an article these days? I understand people don't want to "waste" money on editors but most random dev blogs have fewer typos than sites like this where content is _monetized_ through ads. I bank with one of the main US companies and probably should look into using a second, but setting up credit cards etc. at each one seems like a bad idea... IMO, this is why we should have basic banking through USPS or some other federal organization. I don't care what it costs or why private organizations with [clear histories of fraud](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_Fargo_cross-selling_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_Fargo_cross-selling_scan...) are supposedly better. We should just have better nationalized banking offerings (airlines and healthcare too for that matter) and remove this problem altogether.

add-sub-mul-div 2y ago
> Do people ... not even read their own writing before publishing You can't even trust someone has written their own writing anymore.
RA2lover 2y ago
I don't see it as a typo. Bank is being used as a verbed form of "use banking services", and the text that follows provides an example of how using only a single banking service provider can screw you over.
- Willish42 2y ago
  I hadn't considered the interpretation where "bank" is a verb. Thank you for clarifying, this was driving me crazy! The semantics of "how you <do thing> can screw you over" is still a bit odd, as "screw over" is typically done by people in the English language ("the mailman screwed me over" reads better than "the mailbox screwed me over" or "how I closed the mailbox screwed me over"), but that's less egregious than the obvious typo I took it for (assuming noun form of "bank"). I digress...
- animal_spirits 2y ago
  Right, it’s grammatically the same as saying “how you drive can screw you over”

add-sub-mul-div 2y ago

> Do people ... not even read their own writing before publishing You can't even trust someone has written their own writing anymore.

RA2lover 2y ago

I don't see it as a typo. Bank is being used as a verbed form of "use banking services", and the text that follows provides an example of how using only a single banking service provider can screw you over.

Willish42 2y ago
I hadn't considered the interpretation where "bank" is a verb. Thank you for clarifying, this was driving me crazy! The semantics of "how you <do thing> can screw you over" is still a bit odd, as "screw over" is typically done by people in the English language ("the mailman screwed me over" reads better than "the mailbox screwed me over" or "how I closed the mailbox screwed me over"), but that's less egregious than the obvious typo I took it for (assuming noun form of "bank"). I digress...
animal_spirits 2y ago
Right, it’s grammatically the same as saying “how you drive can screw you over”