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So, I’m sitting in IRC and someone says:

<person> I am typing bdaly
<person> badly*

See, they use this “typo*” syntax to correct their typo. What is that? Where did that syntax come from? No one I asked seems to know, there are theories ranging from it being some old DOS thing (hmm?) to it just being some arbitrary typo correction syntax that someone started and it caught on.

FWIW, I don’t see this a whole lot, most channels I’m in you’d see “s/bdaly/badly” used for typo correction …because we’re nerds, and I know where that comes from!

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  • Brian S
    Sunday, May 25th, 2008 at 21:00

    I’ve seen this a lot on AIM, MSN, etc. In fact, it’s the *only* way I’ve ever seen people correct their spelling over these chat mediums.