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Re:Y Combinator has filed an official comment with the FCC by alexis on Monday July 14, 2014 @05:48PM (#8033466)
Fixed. Thanks. I can't tell you how many times I and others read over that and somehow missed it. So it goes with typos.
Re:Y Combinator has filed an official comment with the FCC by jacquesm on Monday July 14, 2014 @06:19PM (#8033604)
Typos tend to materialize when you hit 'submit', 'publish' or other similarly labeled buttons. Very annoying. At least we've left the days of lead type behind so fixing is a bit quicker.
Re:Y Combinator has filed an official comment with the FCC by vacri on Monday July 14, 2014 @08:50PM (#8034113)
Sometimes I wonder if those buttons have some kind of 'scramble grammar' logic built into them...
Re:Y Combinator has filed an official comment with the FCC by hyp0 on Monday July 14, 2014 @09:17PM (#8034211)

  lead the world, create jobs, and tremendous value
needs another "create". much more minor than the other typo though!
Re:Y Combinator has filed an official comment with the FCC by larrys on Monday July 14, 2014 @07:33PM (#8033854)
"I can't tell you how many times I and others read over that"

From years of being in the graphics business I noted that people tended to miss words that weren't particularly difficult but at the same time (and same people) usually caught difficult words.

My reasoning was that people "chunk" the easy frequent words but slow down and think about every letter in the difficult words.

Some of the most common errors were actually with the city names and street addresses (and numbers) for example.

Re:Y Combinator has filed an official comment with the FCC by edoceo on Tuesday July 15, 2014 @03:14AM (#8035187)
I've read that when not perusing the text we are only looking at the first and last letters of a word and in some cases the general shape of the word to determine which word it is, leading to frequent typos by otherwise very intelligent thoughtful people. Cheers to YC.