The Way You React to Typos Could Be Linked to Your Personality

[xSilverPhinx]

Are you a member of the grammar police, or willing to let a few typos slide? It turns out your reaction to written grammatical and spelling errors may say something about your personality. According to a study recently published in the journal PLOS ONE, negative reactions to written errors may be linked to more introverted, or less agreeable, personality types. Neutral reactions to written errors, meanwhile, may be linked to more extraverted personalities.

Continues here (Mental Floss).

Full study here.

So, where do you fit?

I may be the exception to the rule, but I consider myself to be more introverted and written errors don't bother as much as it clearly bothers some people.

[Nam]

I react to typos because I have critiqued over 30,000 works. It's all I see. I actually stopped critiquing regularly 5 years ago. It started to give me headaches.

-Nam

[Ecurb Noselrub]

I consider it my duty to point out grammatical errors whenever possible, not because the errors give me heartburn, but because justice demands punishment for every infraction, no matter how small.  We must live in a just world, and I consider myself to be the final bulwark against social chaos.

[Nam]

I consider it my duty to point out grammatical errors whenever possible, not because the errors give me heartburn, but because justice demands punishment for every infraction, no matter how small.  We must live in a just world, and I consider myself to be the final bulwark against social chaos.

This coming from the guy who anagrammed his name.



-Nam

[Pasta Chick]

These days I tend to assume autocorrect, unless the entire post is a mess.

[Icarus]

I have noticed some missing or inappropriate words in newspaper articles of late. I presume that autocorrect demons are the culprits.  That does not bother me except for the occasional cases where a word is critical to the understanding or intent of the sentence........ All of which reminds me of the dilemma of the Masuretic scribes (600-800 CE) They tried their damnedest, except for the inevitable screw off types, to translate scriptural texts written in Aramaic. The Aramaic language used almost no vowels. The scribes were not deviled by autocorrect or stuffy pedants, like us, who demand accuracy. 

[Nam]

I have noticed some missing or inappropriate words in newspaper articles of late. I presume that autocorrect demons are the culprits.  That does not bother me except for the occasional cases where a word is critical to the understanding or intent of the sentence........ All of which reminds me of the dilemma of the Masuretic scribes (600-800 CE) They tried their damnedest, except for the inevitable screw off types, to translate scriptural texts written in Aramaic. The Aramaic language used almost no vowels. The scribes were not deviled by autocorrect or stuffy pedants, like us, who demand accuracy. 

My phone autocorrects actual words. I have to go back and check a lot.

[edit: I put autocorrects and it removed the "s" even though it has the word in its dictionary]

-Nam

[xSilverPhinx]

I consider it my duty to point out grammatical errors whenever possible, not because the errors give me heartburn, but because justice demands punishment for every infraction, no matter how small.  We must live in a just world, and I consider myself to be the final bulwark against social chaos.

Typos and grammos: heralding the end of times since the invention of writing. 

[Pasta Chick]

I have noticed some missing or inappropriate words in newspaper articles of late. I presume that autocorrect demons are the culprits.  That does not bother me except for the occasional cases where a word is critical to the understanding or intent of the sentence........ All of which reminds me of the dilemma of the Masuretic scribes (600-800 CE) They tried their damnedest, except for the inevitable screw off types, to translate scriptural texts written in Aramaic. The Aramaic language used almost no vowels. The scribes were not deviled by autocorrect or stuffy pedants, like us, who demand accuracy. 

My phone autocorrects actual words. I have to go back and check a lot.

[edit: I put autocorrects and it removed the "s" even though it has the word in its dictionary]

-Nam

Yes, this happens to me all the time too. It also adds or drops words depending on frequent use.

Plus I've trains to automatically capitalize Doctor, anything T- lately turns into TWD, and Ems is a word. Still can't figure out I really just want to say omw instead of On my way! Though.

[Nam]

Mine has a dictionary that I can go into and remove/add words but it's big, and I'm lazy.

-Nam

[Crow]

My phone always changes food to good. It annoys the crap out of me.

[Nam]

My phone always changes food to good. It annoys the crap out of me.

Ill to I'll for mine. Sometimes when my phone needs recharging it gets pissy and changes the ill back to I'll after I change it. My phone needs to get laid. Too much aggression.

-Nam

[Claireliontamer]

There are certain words that when I type on a QWERTY keyboard I always get wrong: 'health' always comes out 'helath', I think my brain has programmed the wrong sequence. 

[xSilverPhinx]

I'm the same way with 'believe'. I always end up typing 'beleive', then have to go back and correct it. 

I guess it's a case of double rebellion - against both belief and the weird 'i' before 'e' except after 'c' rule.