How spelling mistakes can ruin your life

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Business communication today has moved to the tiny screens of smartphones. However, spelling and typos that often occur during such correspondence can seriously damage the image, writes bbc .

Business communication today has moved to the tiny screens of smartphones. However, spelling and typos that often occur during such correspondence can seriously damage the image, writes bbc .

Secretarial bureaucracies and paper dictionaries are long gone. Now everyday business issues are solved with a quick tap of your fingers on a small screen.

Advances in technology are making our gadgets smaller and smaller, and we need to respond to messages faster and faster.

At this rate, it is not surprising that a typo may creep into the text you have written, or, worse, the proofreader will make no replacement.

It happens to everyone. Sites are full of typos, and even world leaders often press the enter key before checking their message.

Who doesn't remember Donald Trump's infamous tweet with the mysterious word covfefe ?

Although some spelling mistakes are harmless or even ridiculous, in many situations this is not the case.

A simple typo can make the other person think you are less intelligent than you really are.

Spelling mistakes often create confusion, make it difficult to understand the text, and in extreme cases can cause millions in losses or lost jobs.
They can ruin customer relationships and even ruin your chances of dating online.

However, if none of them are insured, and technology only contributes to the spread of bad spelling, is perfect spelling still important? Or maybe mistakes are really okay? Spell check adds problems
Spell checking seemed to solve this problem if it didn't start creating others, says Anne Trubeck, an expert in cutting-edge writing technology and founder of Belt Publishing in Ohio.

"If earlier the most common mistakes in students' works were spelling, now it is the use of an inappropriate word," Ms. Trubek explains. - Spell checking often corrects words not to the ones we were going to write. And if you do not read the text, this error will go unnoticed.

New technologies, such as Apple's "smart" assistant Siri, also teach us not to pay attention to spelling.

"If you look at the development of writing technology - from quill to pen and ballpoint pens, and then the keyboard - it becomes clear that its purpose was to speed up the writing process, to make sure that the written words do not lag behind the thoughts in your head," says Ms. Trumpet. "And Siri does it the best it can."

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