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Correct, this isn't a typo. Perhaps you should hold your one-off comments to a higher standard before you publish them.

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I think they are referring to the room with a glass bathroom cubicle in it. Linked ABC article says $400 / week, blog post says $400 / month.

The author mentioned they were having a few beers, I think we should give them a break. I understood what they were saying.

The thing that the parent implicitly pointed out is that a typo would be a different category of error and the comparison doesn't make much sense [0]. A more correct phrasing in the grandparent would have been "this is not a minor mistake". At least that's my interpretation.

[0] Although you could argue that typo is an example of a minor mistake and used as such, making it a valid comparison.

Yeah a typo is a minor mistake that doesn’t usually change the meaning.

400 a month is insanely cheap, 400 a week is insanely expensive. That completely changes the context.

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