{"id":414,"date":"2020-05-16T05:48:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T05:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.camcobra.com\/home\/?p=414"},"modified":"2025-06-01T03:20:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T03:20:50","slug":"mobile-messaging-substitute-for-proofreading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcobra.com\/home\/2020\/05\/mobile-messaging-substitute-for-proofreading\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile messaging: Substitute for proofreading?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Originally published August 31, 2012<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ve all done it: fired off that text message, only to catch our errors later; or sent that e-mail from our phone and see our mistakes when we receive that quizzical reply. I&#8217;ve stooped so low as to send a follow up \u201ccorrection\u201d text message followed by some slanderous remark about how stupid the auto-correct feature on my phone is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What really bugs me isn&#8217;t that the phone mistakenly \u201ccorrected\u201d something; rather, I&#8217;m more annoyed at myself for not doing due diligence. I&#8217;ve even gone so far as to include some clue about the device from which I&#8217;m sending my messages, as if that will excuse me for any typos that may exist in the message. It&#8217;s sort of my disclaimer: \u201cThis message has been sent from my mobile phone. There&#8217;s a strong chance that there are some typos or something in here. Just excuse them in advance because after all, we all know how stupid auto-correct can be, right?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The real message is, \u201cI just hastily and sloppily threw these words together and tapped the &#8216;send&#8217; button without properly reviewing what I wrote. It is terrible, and I should be publicly executed for it. I want to live, so can you just blame the tiny keyboard on my touch screen phone instead?\u201d The answer: mobile computing is not a substitute for basic proofreading; review what you&#8217;ve written, or be satisfied NOT to slam your phone&#8217;s auto-correct feature. Share your thoughts and funny \u201coops\u201d mobile computing stories in comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published August 31, 2012 We&#8217;ve all done it: fired off that text message, only to catch our errors later; or sent that e-mail from our phone and see our mistakes when we receive that quizzical reply. I&#8217;ve stooped so low as to send a follow up \u201ccorrection\u201d text message followed by some slanderous remark&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-communication","category-reclaimed"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcobra.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcobra.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcobra.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcobra.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcobra.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/camcobra.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/camcobra.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcobra.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcobra.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcobra.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcobra.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}