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Re:How to Think about Pleasure by prionassembly on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @04:55AM (#27602327)
It's not good manners to point out spelling mistakes, but it took me a while to go from "acetic" (vinegar-like?) to "ascetic".
Re:How to Think about Pleasure by jlengrand on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @05:08AM (#27602410)
I kinda like the typo, it gives a very poetic / double meaning to the sentence :)
Re:How to Think about Pleasure by barrkel on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @09:42AM (#27604479)
If 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.

Re:How to Think about Pleasure by pontifier on Monday June 28, 2021 @01:57PM (#27665184)
It's a word I use so infrequently that I was unaware that I misspelled it. Thank you.
Re:How to Think about Pleasure by HKH2 on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @11:54AM (#27605967)
At some point, prescription is required for a language to be preserved.

If we're all online, then that's where it has to be.