Inventing language through typos
Anyone who has chatted with me on MSN very quickly learns to read Renee-ese. I think well enough, my thoughts are generally coherent and phrased well (if a little archaically – I blame Jane Austen). When those thoughts are translated to MSN, they’re a mess. Typos galore, no sense of grammar and I have even spelt my own name wrong on several occasions.
My friend Amanda on the other hand is some sort of genius copywriter or grammar guru – her MSN messages are nearly 100% error free and entirely readable.
So, Amanda and I were chatting online one day when she noticed a typo – I had written “It was very entertainting.”
Her immediate response was that a typo that good needed a definition. I have provided one with an illustration:
Now that’s entertaintment!
(And thanks to Amanda and her eye for amusing, erroneous detail!)
3 comments
Funny, I see you as the one with near perfect grammar and me as the clumsy goof … I’ll be paying closer attention to your messages next time …
How did you not notice my horrid spelling and even worse grammar? MSN needs an automatic spellchecker option.
lol…i’m forever making typos but never thought to turn them into new words entirely. love the doodle…how about some more? perhaps a beach sequence?
ps. where have you been?!
I started a new job that’s been taking up a goodly amount of head space, but I am trying to get that all balanced out again so I can blog more. I missed you guys!
This is the perfect word to describe many things I enjoy: Twilight, Sookie Stackhouse books and bad pop songs (hello Ke$ha). Thank you for bringing it into the world, no matter if it was unintentional.
Heck, they say that post-it note glue was invented when some guy was trying to create a super strong glue. Most ingenious things come about as an accident,
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