Wednesday, September 30, 2026

i'm pretty confident in my ability to type without a spell checker and i don't use one. i turn off autocorrect everywhere. you will find very few typos and even fewer spelling mistakes (typos and spelling mistakes are not the same thing and conflating them makes the criticizer look stupid) here, but you may find the odd one, or the odd jumbled up sentence. it's a function of most of what i type being stream of consciousness; some of it comes out a little blurry sometimes and needs to be reordered, and i usually catch it, but the fact is that i type a lot. i might miss characters (the i, l and p keys on the keyboard i use for this blog are a little broken) and need to go back to fill them in, or i might press an adjacent key. for example, s is beside d, so it's a common typological error to press one instead of the other. everybody in the world does that. that's a typo, it's not a spelling mistake. a spell check might actually not even catch it if both outcome are words, anyways. i catch most of them but the math - the probability - is not on my side, when i type this much. it's inevitable. if you type hundreds of pages a day on most days, there's going to be some typos. even professional typists, which i am not, will make those kinds of mistakes. i may sometimes be in a rush to get out somewhere or may have to meet a deadline and may not have time to go back to fix a typo or reorder a thought. i may from time to time be half asleep when i'm typing and forget to fix it when i wake up. those two things together account for 99% of the typos you're going to find in my writing. there are virtually no actual spelling errors in my writing; i have a large and complex vocabulary, and can spell almost everything, typos notwithstanding.

i wouldn't consider this to be that concerning.

if you find a typo or a spelling mistake, here, congratulations - you've proven i'm human. i acknowledge that fact. thank you for proving i'm not ai.

i don't consider it to be embarrassing, but i'll take the time to fix it if you want to point it out. chances are pretty high you understand what i meant to type, which is the point; i'm conveying ideas, i'm getting arguments across. i'm not a grade school english teacher, i'm something better, more abstract, more challenging than that.

if that's the best you can do in terms of critique, i feel sorry for you. talk about style over substance. you're proving my point about the society falling into idiocracy. 

you want to sort through 1000 pages of perfectly written writing and dwell on the typo on page 1001? that's pathetic. you're a retard.

why don't you try reading what i said and focusing on debating my ideas, instead?

because you're too lazy and too stupid to get into an actual debate with me, that's why. instead, you focus on a typo. it's a reflection of your own lack of ability and of the deficit of quality and substance in your own ideas.