lazy fucking typos

[Caron1968]

AIBU to be irritated by posters who make numerous typos and then have the audacity to apologise and say things like "oooooh I am so cross at this my spelling and grammar has gone by the board".
For fucks sake proof read prior to posting. It isn't that difficult.

[Caron1968]

I think I should now retire with shame written all over my face. Never again shall I dare to create a thread on MN. I feel like the weedy kid at school who got picked last for football in the playground.

[PsecretSantead]

I do proof read, but I often don't notice mistakes until I post.

"the audacity to apologise" - yeah, some people and their fucking cheek, right? They actually have the nerve to say sorry about their mistakes. Fuckers!

[Caron1968]

Kick me while I am down unquietdad.

[olderyetwider]

Don't whinge Caron, you did know what was coming!

[AbsofCroissant]

"oooooh I am so cross at this my spelling and grammar has gone by the board".
What does this mean?

Meh. Typos on MN - forgivable, especially when it's the heat of the moment and you're arguing with someone.

But, work emails

[GypsyMoth]

typos or typo's......

[toddlerwrangler]

Humm, I really must question the aprostphy is 'fuck's sake'.

By my understading, the ' is to show posession - does the sake belong to the fuck?

I am thinking it is fucks sake....

[5GoldenFimbos]

Caron you just started this thread to see how many replies you would get didn't you? You knew we would all bite.

[PsecretSantead]

I always write 'typoes'. Who knows? Defo not with apostrophe though, unless typo(e)s have possession of whatever it is.

Clear as mud, ho hum.

[AbsofCroissant]

What about fucks' sake?

Nah, it should be fuck's sake. Because of it is for the sake of fuck. N'est pas?

[toddlerwrangler]

OP - I love the way offensve langauge is OK, but a typo isn't!

[GreenButton]

proof-read?

I really don't give a shite!

[PsecretSantead]

I think it is for the sake of fuck. You say for God's sake, for Pete's sake etc, so it follows that for fuck's sake is correct.

[hmc]

"Kick me while I am down unquietdad."

Surely you had some inkling of the kind of response you would get after posting an adversarial title and op?

[olderyetwider]

It is the sake belonging to fuck, toddlerwrangler.

No apostrophe in typos (plural, not posession)

[toddlerwrangler]

AbsofCroissant - I don't think it is fuck's sake, because then it would be posessive to two fucks?

Hummm, I use a horse board and there ae some HARDCORE grammer pendants on there, however swearing is very frowned upon. Still I need answers!

[toddlerwrangler]

Actually, you have all brought me round.

Fuck's sake it is.

[olderyetwider]

Absof croissant, fucks' sake would be correct if there were more than one fuck.

[PsecretSantead]

Fucks' sake would be two or more fucks. Fuck's sake is one.

[GMajor7SwansASwimming]

Caron1968 - AIBU is a question!

Surely therefore, the first sentence in your OP should have ended in a question mark?

Eh?

Eh?

[booyhohoho]

when i first joined i wondered who Don was and why posters were pointing out his hard hat. i have learned so much since then, thank you pedants' corner.

[IWouldNotCouldNotWithAGoat]

You are missing a question mark and an apostrophe.

Kindly check your work more carefully before posting again.

[AbsofCroissant]

Exacto.

I am now pro-typos on MN after someone gave me a dressing down on the Politics board for a typo, and I felt very miffed

So how many fucks are we talking about?