Re: "Why A Stud Ranch for Women Won't Work"

Andre Lieven wrote:
Ken Chaddock (chaddock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) writes:

Andre Lieven wrote:

Ken Chaddock (chaddock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) writes:

Andre Lieven wrote:

"ddnoe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" (ddnoe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) writes:

Women are more likely to break up relationships and marriages than women.

Freudian slip ?

Simple typo me thinks..."Don't attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by error or stupidity"

A " typo " is when one hits the wrong key, for a letter one had intended
to write. Writing two *extra* letters is something else, it may yet be
an error, but a " typo " it definitely *isn't*.

Sorry Andre, that's not necessarily the case.

No proof offered ? Claim fails. Words have menaing. A typo is not something
other than a typo...

Yet you have offered no proof, nothing in fact but speculation that Denise's statement was a "freudian slip"...Denise wrote:
"Women are more likely to break up relationships and marriages than women"
so tell me, if this *did* represent a freudian slip WHICH of the two "women" in her statement was the "slip" and which was intentional ?

*I* often change *how* I want to say something, reversing the order of words...like woman and man or men and women...

All well and good, but a typo that is not...

The word "typo" is short for "typographical error"...which we're *both* old enough to remember ;-)...A "typographical error" is *any* error by a typist, NOT just errors of spelling

Source: WordNet (r) 1.7

typographical error
n : a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical
failures of some kind [syn: misprint, erratum, typo,
literal error, literal]
Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (2003-OCT-10)

typographical error

(typo) An error while inputting text via keyboard, made
despite the fact that the user knows exactly what to type in.
This usually results from the operator's inexperience at
keyboarding, rushing, not paying attention, or carelessness.

and, I know you won't believe this but even *I* sometimes make mistakes...

Such as continuing to claim that a not-typo is a typo...

According to my sources, a typo is *any* error while inputting text...NOT just spelling...

yes, it's true, sometimes I even forget to change men to women or woman to man when I DO edit the post :-O !

Fine. But, thats not a typo. Call it a senior moment, a failure to engage brain while typing, or anything else, but a typo is one clear thing:

Well Denise's meaning was pretty clear to *me*, I immediately understood, from the context of her article, that she *meant* to say:
"Women are more likely to break up relationships and marriages than MEN" and recognized the mistake as a "typo" in keeping with the accepted definition...

Anyway, this is a stupid argument, lets get onto more important issues...

....Ken
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