DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have a dear sister who is 50. She is a busy professional and homemaker. I am her 65-year-old brother, living about four hours away, also well-educated. We have a very good relationship and see each other a few times a year, but we also keep in touch by frequent text messages.

My sister apparently doesn’t read and edit her texts prior to sending them. She likely uses a dictation system included in her phone that is prone to errors. Frequently, her messages have an incorrect word or two, and they are often very confusing -- lacking context or just incomprehensible.

What is a gentle way of telling her that she needs to read and edit her messages because they don’t make sense? She suggested I was being curt, dismissive and impatient in my return messages, but I did not s

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