On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 12:41 PM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 9:27 AM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> The “typo” referred to below is mine. I do apologize for this, As for all >> my many spelling mistakes on this list over the years. This is not strictly >> a typographical error, in the sense of hitting wrong keys, but a failure to >> notice and repair an auto correct. The burden to fix it was mine of course, >> though I think it would be relatively easy to figure out the intended word >> from reading the linked article (“lewd” videos, the word lewd lifted from >> the article). >> >> I in turn am not sure in what context such a mistake would not only be >> assumed to be anti-Semitic, but not believed to be anything but even when >> explained. Is there a perception here that I have pre-dispositions in that >> direction? >> > > In today's world typos are a result of autocorrect rather hitting the > wrong key. Especially hitting the wrong key leads to a misspelling and > autocorrect leads to a completely different word. > > As a Jewish person I couldn't have pulled out any hostile intent from the > posted sentence. But over the years I have been in conversations where > somebody apologizes to me before I realized what he said could be taken as > antisemitic. It's just not always clear. > The funny thing to me is that Daniel Snyder is so weird that the sentence as typed would have been believable, and probably not the weirdest thing to come out of DontCallItRedskins Park in the last couple of months. John -- John Edwards "You can insure against the weather, but you can't insure against incompetence, can you?" - Phil Tufnell -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJLXtMK95dh%3DmYQDuVreojM9GHdhweJDeSfkaukf-LXqB_OMYA%40mail.gmail.com.
