Typo Error

Typographical error. Is it really important in this wonderful world of blogging? Some might say that it is and some may say not so much. I’m an OC (obsessive compulsive) when it comes to perfection. I double-check everything. So people type their posts blogger’s new post field, while I write my post initially in ms word and then just cut and paste it in blogger.com for posting. Thus, I can see if I typed the words wrongly right after I wrote them. Blogger has a spelling check of course … I still use that. After I pasted the words I’ve written in ms word, I still double-checked it with Blogger’s spelling check. And after that, I proofread my post just in case I missed out on something. I want my posts to be clear and error free… but of course I’m only human and error is inevitable.

Today I received an email from my friend Claude. The content was familiar and I received this email before. But just wanted to share it with you guys...

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer inwaht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmornatt.

See? Come to think of it, typo error is actually irrelevant since our brain can still understand what we post even if its garbled. We’ll the downside is that you should make sure that the first and last letters of the word is in its correct place so this can work. Nonetheless, I’m still amazed how our brain works.