some very good points from Julian and Adonay - i would just like again to underline that those are points that are very reasonable for fully published public documents - but in the context of an instant messenger such as ring this is not the case - your messages will be seen once and only once usually by one single person and then never to be seen again
if you sent an erroneous message then like it or not, that person has seen the error already - that person watched you send the erroneous message then they watched as you erased the erroneous message then they watched as you re-sent what was substantially the exact same message as that they had just read but perhaps with a minor typo corrected - i do not see the point in that - you are not making yourself appear to be more eloquent by correcting a error that was fully witnessed by the one and only person it was intended for - you are just wasting that person's time if the concern is that typos are unprofessional then i would agree but the real reason that typos are unprofessional is because all chat is unprofessional - if this is an important professional communication then plug in your webcam and mic and have a proper person-to-person talk - or meet that person for a coffee downtown - or have your secretary write them a formal letter on your company letterhead and snail-mail it to them - in which case it is perfectly reasonable to take the extra time correcting grammar/spelling errors chat is informal by it's very nature - so any conscious thought about it is probably over-thinking it
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