Typos and autocorrect

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I was just rereading some of my blog posts and noticed some mistakes. I saw problems with capitalization, lack of apostrophes, and wrong words. I could correct the problems, but I'm afraid a republish will change the post date and put old, but now corrected, blog posts ahead of newer ones. So as much as it pains me, the mistakes will remain. 

However, I do want to explain. I did not bring a laptop with me. For the sake of travel convenience (and the fact that my netbook is Windows and I've converted to Apple), I have just my iPad. While I do have a little Bluetooth external keyboard, most of the time I'm just using the digital keyboard to write my blogs. I've grown accustomed to the iPad's autocorrect, so I don't bother capitalizing "I" or actually hitting the apostrophe (it is on a different screen) because autocorrect takes care of it for me. Occasionally, autocorrect doesn't catch what I did and, viola, I look like a moron. Trust me, I'm not an idiot. I'm just a bit lazy.

Sometimes, though, I'm simply tired. For instance, I noticed in a caption in my first photo blog that I called All Souls College Old Souls. I can't blame that on autocorrect. So I was either tired or my mind was playing mean tricks on me.

So my apologies for the less than perfect copy. At least my pictures are pretty, right? 😄

Comments

  1. Margaret AnnSeptember 17, 2013 at 5:41 PM

    I've faced the same issue with my blog.. and I'm usually using a standard keyboard - LOL! No matter how many times I re-read and edit, I always seem to end up with some kind of grammar or spelling error in the published post. Eck. But I have gone back and corrected a couple of the more egregious slights via the Blogspot dashboard and it didn't seem to change the posting date or post sequence.

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