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[jaF0]

I hate my fingers and they hate me. I'm convinced my fingers and my brain are not communicating with each other any more.

I do teh so often my speel chuckers don't even flag it any more. And then there's the ever omnipresent tehn and the extra n at the end of the (when I get it right) making the then.

And I don't seem to know now either.

 

[jaF0]

Flutterbuttering and manglewording aside, I'm pretty sure I'm in decline. I've noticed a lot of things aren't as clear as they used to be and things take much longer to accomplish.

 

[SimonDoom]

I have always been a "teh" violator. I've spent gazillions of hours at keyboards writing for my profession for decades, and I can't say for certain it's gotten worse. I prefer to think of it as a lovable tic rather than evidence of decline.

If I can get my fingers to stop typing "waste" when I mean "waist," I will be happy. That can really throw an erotic narrative.

 

[jaF0]

And then there's the IO, IO, we go when I only want the I and not the O.

Yes, there were two tehs in there and a wneh. And even an adn.

I spend more time correcting stuff I type than typing it to begin with.

 

[Rustyoznail]

You're not alone. Teh, tehir, etc... Even when I look at the keys, it still comes out wrong.

 

[SimonDoom]

And then there's the IO, IO, we go when I only want the I and not the O.

Yes, there were two tehs in there and a wneh. And even an adn.

I spend more time correcting stuff I type than typing it to begin with.

I have typed for years and years, and I can type with reasonable proficiency. I can type what I'm writing now without looking at the keyboard. But I swear sometimes my fingers are possessed by demons that are out to get me.

 

[NoTalentHack]

Mine is arguably worse: "in the" becomes "int he." Both of them are words, so spell checkers often don't catch them.

 

[M_K_Babalon]

I don't know how many times I've typed kike, trying to type like.

 

[EdgySubMic]

I've been a teh-er for as long as I've been typing English, i.e. for about 40+ years. However, I hardly ever have to worry about it, because just about every editor I ever use has teh ability to automatically remap teh teh sequence. Except the one used for this forum, but it does have live spell check and will underline any mistake. As it did twice (not thrice) in the preceding sentence, which for once I opted to ignore. Anyway, when I want to write a bigger comment here, I type it in another editor and then cut & paste it into the forum.

 

[UsuallyPresent]

Typoitis is a draed disaese.

 

[jaF0]

Both of them are words, so spell checkers often don't catch them.

But why don't they catch th1ng? Or 0r?

 

[MrPixel]

But why don't they catch th1ng? Or 0r?

Don't you hear the little voice of the spell-checker? "OMG, numbers! I'm out! You're on your own this time."

 

[Dearelliot]

I've had a slight tremor most of my life, (They called me Shaky in the Army) but now at 90, don't stand too close when I'm cutting meat with a knife!
Writing is so much work... correcting.

 

[JerseyJugHandler]

A PM once brought me the question, "Do you loke my globes?"
I couldn't decide between the available possibilities: LIKE or LOVE?
It's just one wrong key; which one, makes all the difference. Was the sender expecting simple admiration, or breathless devotion? (Oh, the objects under discussion were NOT her GLOVES.)

 

[Comshaw]

It isn't bad until you notice smoke curling out of the CPU that is over worked and over heated by the spell checker trying to keep up with my sausage-fingered mistakes. The worst one for me is "form" instead of "from". The damned thing never picks it up, nor does Grammarly half the time.

And why is it when my sausage fingers hits two keys at a time the one I wasn't trying for is the one that shows up on the screen? I think it's associated with the phenomena of the buttered side of the bread always hitting the floor when I drop it. Or is there really a gremlin at work?


Comshaw

 

[jaF0]

"The worst one for me is "form" instead of "from""


I do that one too. One that really gets me (and can cause a problem on some sites) is acocunt.


" the phenomena of the buttered side of the bread always hitting the floor"

If that happens, and a cat always lands claws and paws down, why does a board with nails always land with the nails up?

 

[gunhilltrain]

But why don't they catch th1ng? Or 0r?

Sometimes words are so mangled that even spell checkers get confused. The MS Word checker flags some things. Grammarly does it even better. Bit nothing is better than plain old proofreading - several times. Try it once with a different font and letter color and things will pop out. You'll also see if you've repeated yourself (easy to make that mistake) or if something else in the plot doesn't make sense.

In decline? Some people in Pasadena have already checked out early. Or lost their houses. As firefighters say, "This could be the day." The day you unexpectedly die or have some other awful thing happen. You didn't anticipate it, but it happened anyway.

 

[Britva415]

I spend more time correcting stuff I type than typing it to begin with.

This is the only thing which keeps me from typing 185 words per minute.

 

[gunhilltrain]

And then there's the IO, IO, we go when I only want the I and not the O.

Yes, there were two tehs in there and a wneh. And even an adn.

I spend more time correcting stuff I type than typing it to begin with.

Have you even published anything here yet? There are so many versions of JaFO on the site that I'm not sure which one is you.

Just before I submit something, I copy what's in the submission box and save it in a separate "Submissions folder." Portnoy's Complaint Ch. 04 Submitted. A couple of times per year, I have to correct a published story and that way I have the most recent version of it to use. I did that in December and it took about two weeks for them to approve it, but what the hell, at least I got what I had wanted. Use the "Note to Moderator" box to tell them what you changed. (Who knows if that makes any difference?)

You can't diddle with a potential submission forever. You have to say, "This is as done as I can make it, and now I'm going to publish it."

 

[lovecraft68]

I hate my fingers and they hate me. I'm convinced my fingers and my brain are not communicating with each other any more.

I do teh so often my speel chuckers don't even flag it any more. And then there's the ever omnipresent tehn and the extra n at the end of the (when I get it right) making the then.

And I don't seem to know now either.

I think most of us have some type of 'glitch' when we type.

One of mine is calm frequently comes out as clam. Hands on is hand son, Coke and Cock which provides for some funny typos considering we write erotica here.

I also, after years of writing cannot spell the word rhythm. It's to the point that I just type something close and use spellcheck to fix it, like I just did in this reply.

 

[Trionyx]

aobut is aobut the worst typo I keep running into but I'm not aobut to let it keep me from finishing my story.

 

[jaF0]

How did amount become ampit?