# For those who think that spelling is unimportant **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 20, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-who-think-that-spelling-is-unimportant/619432 "2012-04-20T18:02:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-who-think-that-spelling-is-unimportant/619432/1 "2012-04-20T18:02:59Z")
[This](http://www.sadanduseless.com/2012/04/twitter-cologne/) is a sad compilation of one spelling error. I must admit it was good for at least one giggle. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-who-think-that-spelling-is-unimportant/619432/2 "2012-04-20T18:21:55Z")
How do you know it was a misspelling? ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-who-think-that-spelling-is-unimportant/619432/3 "2012-04-20T21:30:11Z")
Lol, you’d think they would at least spell it “colone” if they didn’t know how to properly spell it. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-who-think-that-spelling-is-unimportant/619432/4 "2012-04-20T21:33:25Z")
Mmmm. I love the smell of colon in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-who-think-that-spelling-is-unimportant/619432/5 "2012-04-20T21:55:59Z")
That’s knot what they ment. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-who-think-that-spelling-is-unimportant/619432/6 "2012-04-20T22:17:21Z")
That is amazing. Thank you for sharing! My favorites: The smell of my dad’s colon \>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\> Why do boy’s colon smell better than girl’s perfume? wtf! ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2012, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-who-think-that-spelling-is-unimportant/619432/7 "2012-04-21T00:04:00Z")
This brought out my inner 12 year old. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2012, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-who-think-that-spelling-is-unimportant/619432/8 "2012-04-21T02:16:59Z")
And few of them used the semicolon; ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2012, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-who-think-that-spelling-is-unimportant/619432/9 "2012-04-21T03:14:19Z")
They’re spelling Colón correctly. They just don’t know it’s not Spanish. ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2012, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-who-think-that-spelling-is-unimportant/619432/10 "2012-04-21T03:22:01Z")
> [@voltaire](#): > > Lol, you’d think they would at least spell it “colone” if they didn’t know how to properly spell it. My daugher, Texter Extraordinaire, tells me that if you misspell “cologne” when you’re typing on your phone, it will auto-correct to “colon”. Which doesn’t make this any less funny. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2012, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-who-think-that-spelling-is-unimportant/619432/11 "2012-04-21T05:22:44Z")
Obligatory Belkar [reference](http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0781.html). (Order of the Stick is the new Monty Python.)