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Somebody commented under one story of mine "It makes my sad".

Is it correct to say such thing? Does it mean the same as "It makes me sad", or it has different meaning or severity? Please note that the person who wrote this is Australian, so I thoughmaybe it has a different usage in Australian English.

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Probably just a typo "my" for "me". – Bill Franke Nov 13 '12 at 10:08
I agree with @Bill. I found a surprisingly high number of exact matches on Google for "it makes my sad", but, when I switched to Google books, there was only a small handful of hits, and those were in contexts such as "it makes my sad heart cry." The hits for "it makes my sad" by itself were almost all found in tweets, blogs, and comments on forums, YouTube, and tumblr, where typos are not uncommon. – J.R. Nov 13 '12 at 10:32
I first thought it might be a typo too; but since letters e and y were not adjacent then I thought maybe it's not. – Sina Iravanian Nov 13 '12 at 10:41
This also depends on Auto-correction too, when you type things on computer. I remember iPad corrected my "mw" as "my" (instead of "me" as it should be) too many times than I can count. – Damkerng T. Nov 13 '12 at 10:48
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Typos aren't always the result of hitting the wrong key. Sometimes it's just a matter of thinking of two different ways to phrase something while you're composing, and then blending them by mistake. For example, I might be waffling between how to think and what to do, and inadvertantly type "how to do". Or maybe me brain just types a certain keystroke pattern out of habit, and I don't catch the small error before something gets posted, particularly when it happens to spell a similar word, like if vs. in, or there vs. their, or of vs. off. – J.R. Nov 13 '12 at 11:05
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closed as too localized by J.R., Will Hunting, JSBձոգչ, jwpat7, Daniel δ Nov 13 '12 at 19:07

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