Category — language

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!)