Hot take alert!!!!!!!

Sorry, but that random made up crap of a conversation doesn’t apply, and is basically the worst strawman ever put forth on a kinja website.

Meh.

I think holding people to a standard on an electronic device that auto corrects spelling is fair enough.

It’s not the occasional typo on a blog (and this is not some random blog that a teenager is banging it in a basement, but a multimillion dollar concern), but rather the attitude that “It’s OK. It’s not hurting anyone. I can still understand what’s written.” as the standard which you are ready and willing to accept.

Don’t get hurt coming down off that high horse

Free and supported by ads, just as NBC or CNN are. Sorry, but I hold them to a higher standard than a monkey bashing out random letters on a keyboard, and I hold the Gawker sites to the same standard.

For chrissakes, they could run in it through a word processing program that would weed out mistakes like this. No one is suggesting that they hire a dedicated PERSON to spell check their articles.

Spelling words correctly is not some high journalistic standard. It’s a 5th grade composition class standard.

Booze doesn’t keep drinking itself, get behind the wheel, or do any number of things. People who shouldn’t be drinking make the decision to keep drinking,

Well, no, technically not. They’ve been like “Eff spell checkers” for years. The very first Gawker article I ever read had a glaring name misspelling for the principal person named in the story, in the first paragraph. As far as I can tell, they’ve never been able to use a spell checker, much less, you know, an…

Dimentia is when one patient displays two cases of dementia at once. It’s clinically related to trimentia and, of course, tetramentia.

for his dimentia.

Talk about a real bust in the Chappelle Show racial draft. First overall.

EXACTLY. “D00D YER STILL ON MS WERD???!!!!1"

It was clickbait. We all fell for it. It happens.

Hey! Don’t knock Internet Explorer!

Press F2 to edit a cell and be able to use the arrow keys. Clicking in the formula bar gives you the same powers.

I must say - I’m usually not fond of the Adequate Man posts, but this is one of the good ones.