# tpyo

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tpyo/621974>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 15, 2012, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tpyo/621974 "2012-05-15T08:37:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![An\_Madra\_Dubh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e56c9b/32.png) [@An\_Madra\_Dubh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Madra_Dubh)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tpyo/621974/1 "2012-05-15T08:37:37Z")

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I often get my reads here, because the reads are often savage.

I seldom write:

But after being up all night writing a long lofty email about Judo clubs and Art to Dublin City Council, I perpetrated a typo that I’d like to share.

Totally by accident, I signed myself off as

An Madra Dubh

founder of Judo.

Should I send another e-mail to clarify that I am not in-fact the founder of Judo?

:smack:

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**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tpyo/621974/2 "2012-05-15T08:45:42Z")

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I think most people would understand that 🙂

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**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tpyo/621974/3 "2012-05-15T13:44:38Z")

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I’d leave it; in fact, maybe you should expand on it. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tpyo/621974/4 "2012-05-15T14:06:53Z")

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> [@Cicero](#):
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> I think most people would understand that 🙂

I’m one who doesn’t understand. Please explain.

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**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tpyo/621974/5 "2012-05-15T14:09:44Z")

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I meant understanding that he/ she didn’t found judo. It is sort of old isn’t it. Why he/ she made the typo I have no idea.

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tpyo/621974/6 "2012-05-15T14:24:24Z")

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> [@Cicero](#):
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> I meant understanding that he/ she didn’t found judo. It is sort of old isn’t it. Why he/ she made the typo I have no idea.

Thanks. I do get that part, but where’s the “typo” (as in something mistyped)?

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**Author:** ![pantheon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@pantheon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pantheon)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tpyo/621974/7 "2012-05-15T14:32:59Z")

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> [@Zeldar](#):
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> Thanks. I do get that part, but where’s the “typo” (as in something mistyped)?

I’m guessing “the founder of Judo” was a block of text originally intended to be in the body of the email somewhere, but was replaced (but not over-written) with other phrasing, and unintentionally left to slink further down to the bottom with every carriage return, successfully hiding until post-review.

It’s more of a formatting error, but I also include such accidents under the broad umbrella of “typo”.

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tpyo/621974/8 "2012-05-15T14:44:12Z")

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> [@pantheon](#):
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> I’m guessing “the founder of Judo” was a block of text originally intended to be in the body of the email somewhere, but was replaced (but not over-written) with other phrasing, and unintentionally left to slink further down to the bottom with every carriage return, successfully hiding until post-review.
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> It’s more of a formatting error, but I also include such accidents under the broad umbrella of “typo”.

I could accept that as what happened but I reserve “typo” for misspellings in my own use of the word. I kept trying to reorganize Judo to a word I knew. Closest I could get was “dojo” and I couldn’t make that make sense.