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Email Informalizer Button
Makes a few typos for you so it looks like you wrote it faster.
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My emails are always perfectly spelled and perfectly punctuated. I read them several times before sending and apply semicolons and after-punctuation spaces perfectly correctly, and I fix all typos I notice.

Quite frankly, no one else I know does this and I bet my emails look pretty square. Especially in a quick back-and-forth conversation where the other person's like "you have to se theawesome vacation photos i gotback1" and I'm like "Really; Please, With Respect To The Photographs, Allow Me To View Them"

There should be an "Informalizer" button which would pop up a input box asking me how many errors I would like to introduce; the computer would then alter - UNBEKNOWNST TO ME - the email in that many different places - and then send it! (most errors should involve commas, spaces, or the word "the")

When the other person replies and quotes my message, I will realize for the first time that I made an unanticipated typo, and it'll be just like when a less careful person makes a typo and doesn't realize it until later.


phundug, Jun 06 2008

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       Don't be a sheep, man!

phoenix, Jun 07 2008
  

       I would use this on the emails I receive at work, just to make things interesting.   

       "Maik sure u send that report asa, or u r fired!!1 lolz   

       Tha boss"

daseva, Jun 07 2008
  

       "The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him... The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself... All progress depends on the unreasonable man."   

       - George Bernard Shaw

pertinax, Jun 08 2008
  

       /"Really; Please, With Respect To The Photographs, Allow Me To View Them"/   

       <excessive capitalisation-induced shudder>

Texticle, Jun 08 2008
  

       "Why has phundug suddenly started to make typos in his emails?"   

       "Dunno. Its not like him. Either he's trying to fit in like the uptight undercover cop in a lame comedy movie who tries to use street talk to appear inconspicuous. Or he's way too busy at work. Shame, I liked the way he was the only one who ever took the time to write properly."

boysparks, Jun 08 2008
  

       sp: "took teh time 2 rite proper"

Ian Tindale, Jun 09 2008
  

       or you could just use a teenager as a scribe

xxobot, Jun 09 2008
  

       THIS COULD ALSO BE UZED FOR PEOPLE WHO PUT THINGS UP FOR ACTION ON EBAY! THE ONZ HOO FOUND AN ITME BUT DOENT NOW ANY DETAILS COS THEY ARENOT EXPRETS!

zen_tom, Jun 09 2008
  

       sp: "an input", but I imagine that was the Informalizer at work.

theleopard, Jun 09 2008
  

       sp: "which would the pop up a input box", but I imaging that was the Informalizer at wrok.

pashute, Jun 10 2008
  

       //The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself//
I bet GBS never went skydiving.

coprocephalous, Jun 10 2008
  
      
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