Removing all doubt...
If you drop a letter in the post office mail slot and instantly realize you were mistaken to send it off just yet, you can go to the ladies at the counter and beg mercy and they'll usually dig your letter out. However, when you press "send" on an email, there's no snatching it back from the ether in that dread instant your eye zeroes in on the humiliating grammatical error it refused to see mere moments earlier.
aaaaaarrrgh!
Really. I'm not illiterate. Mostly.
8 comments:
Oh hell. Just stop.
It only bothered me a lot when I was at work and did that! However, we had Outlook that allowed a recall of the message if you were real desperate and reacted before it was read. Too bad ISPs don't offer that!
fhb - *L*
mushy - wow. I didn't know you could do that. Yeah, it'd be a nice feature for isps to offer.
As you could see from my comment(s) on an earlier post, I, too, have my issues with grammar!
Frankly, I get really pissed off when I make obvious errors, especially on my own blog, where I re-read the damn post over and over again before posting it.
At least you can go back and edit it, unlike e-mail!
Not in my post office; they're real feminazis, they even criticize my handwriting. I'd rather get embarrassed to death than to speak more than the minimum allowed word count with them.
I just realized I can't spell Nazi - and when I spell-checked, the first recommendation was "ruckus". Hummm.
Too bad there isn't a "I wrote that last night when I was drunk and want to take it back" buttons. LOL
One nice thing about Groupwise is that you can "memory hole" emails so long as they haven't yet been read by the recieving party.
christina - I've actually left errors on the blog and noticed them months (or years) later. Oh well!
attila tm - *L* Yeah. They should have a button like that. They could put it right next to the "any" key.
cyberludite - Groupwise - that sounds like a superb feature and one worth investing in
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