an/and

[Guest]

Does anyone else find themselves typing the word *and* when you mean to type *an*?

I find that I do this quite often, and sometimes I don't even realize it until I have read over what I have written a few times. I guess my fingers are just on auto and they automatically want to hit the *d*.

 

[pop_54]

Does anyone else find themselves typing the word *and* when you mean to type *an*?

I find that I do this quite often, and sometimes I don't even realize it until I have read over what I have written a few times. I guess my fingers are just on auto and they automatically want to hit the *d*.

You'd be amazed at some of the stupid things I type when meaning to type something completely different, causes an awful lot of trouble sometimes, she just doesn't believe I never meant to say that to another woman

I do as you do my dear, quite often actually, also find myself missing letters off quite a bit, I begin to suspect that, a: I am getting too weak to press the keys hard enough, or b: the keyboard is wearing out, c: I really am going dafter.

pops..

 

[Colleen Thomas]

"About it" will come out "abou tit" every time I type it. I don't know if it's a freudian slip or just the way my fingers and mind mesh but it happens every time.

-Colly

 

[CharleyH]

Re: Re: an/and

You'd be amazed at some of the stupid things I type when meaning to type something completely different, causes an awful lot of trouble sometimes, she just doesn't believe I never meant to say that to another woman

I do as you do my dear, quite often actually, also find myself missing letters off quite a bit, I begin to suspect that, a: I am getting too weak to press the keys hard enough, or b: the keyboard is wearing out, c: I really am going dafter.

pops..

LOL Pops

When I have the laptop on my alp, I often make spelling mistakes. I find when I am tired I can't see the keyboard, and when I am excited, don't care to see the keyboard. On the otherhand, my keyboarding prowess is limited to three fingers on each hand, but I'm very fast with three fingers.

 

[pop_54]

Re: Re: Re: an/and

LOL Pops

When I have the laptop on my alp, I often make spelling mistakes. I find when I am tired I can't see the keyboard, and when I am excited, don't care to see the keyboard. On the otherhand, my keyboarding prowess is limited to three fingers on each hand, but I'm very fast with three fingers.

I've been told I'm pretty good with three fingers Charley If you ever need a hand like.

 

[Liar]

Then and than has me backspacing every single time.

Other then that...well...the word 'poetry' is a realy finger-tripper to type.

#L

 

[Guest]

...the word 'poetry' is a realy finger-tripper to type.

I think that's quite appropriate.

Perdita

 

[gauchecritic]

Has no-one heard of Mavis Beacon?

I typed Beacomn then, but that's because I'm on the laptop which has stupid bloody small keys and you have to keep the heel of the hand away from the mousepad.

I nearly always type hte for the. The space between any word ending with t and making it join the nex tword is probably because the second largest part of the brain is concerned with the thumb before the fingers.

Which raises an interesting point. By, far the organ which takes up most of the brains muscle control is the tongue. And almost everyone here agrees that sex is in the mind. hmm.

Gauche

 

[Black Tulip]

The always comes out as teh.

And is in Dutch en, sounds almost the same so I frequently type en instead of and.
En schoulders instead of shoulders. In Dutch that's schouders.

I can type with 10 fingers, blind, but if I'm tired it tends to get al ittle dysclisecx.

 

[Guest]

Has no-one heard of Mavis Beacon?

... By, far the organ which takes up most of the brains muscle control is the tongue. And almost everyone here agrees that sex is in the mind. hmm.

No, I haven't heard of Ms. Beacon, and do not know why you ask.

Re. the tongue, cite your source if not your own (tongue that is).

Perdita

p.s. I think you missed an 'm' in hmmm.

 

[gauchecritic]

No, I haven't heard of Ms. Beacon, and do not know why you ask.

Re. the tongue, cite your source if not your own (tongue that is).

Perdita

My source is my own (much like your sauce) from extensive eclectic reading and taking note of interesting things rather than who wrote or said them.

But in defence, more touch sense per sq cm than any other part of the body, more controllable than any other muscle and more fascile, chemical factories covering the upper area which can identify pollutants as low as 1 part in 10,000, the single most sensitive organ in the body which is why babies will immediately place any foreign material directly into their mouth, not for the taste but to feel it.

If you want to know who said so, google it.

Gauche

 

[Guest]

Gauche, Look who's attributing sauce .

Not to quibble, but re. the sense of touch per sq cm, I think I know exactly where on my female person the cm's of such would win over my genderless tongue (at present my euphemism is a comma). Nonetheless, thank you for the thoughtful reply. Not up to googling, will take your good word for most of what you say.

Perdita

 

[minsue]

Back on the subject of typing...

I find myself throwing an e on the end of most words. I do it when writing, too. I've no idea why, but I've always done that and it drives me insane. At least when typing I can backspace. It's a pain in the ass when writing.

And Gauche is right about the stupid tiny laptop keys. Even worse, since I am finally starting to get used to them, now I'm screwing up my typing at work on the normally sized keyboard.

- Mindy (aka Minge for 'Dita )

edited because I'm too tired to write coherently

 

[A7inchPhildo]

The always comes out as teh.

Not only the/teh but "I" I have this thing if I am typing fast I double space and place the "i" next to the following word. An and and are not a problem but "ans" is.

As far as the brain use to muscle. I would have to say definately the anus. More thoughts go through my mind and just think how your whole body has to shake and quiver at times. Grunting, sweating, swearing, squeezing, not to mention your daily activities schedule being listed, while you are reading the paper.
I wont go into the sensations. LOL

Phew! Reminding your self to stay away from the hot peppers!

source is the same place Gauche found his.

Phildo

 

[oggbashan]

'that' comes out as 'thta'.

'artist' trips me up. I keep referring to 'artsit'.

'Canterbury' becomes 'Cnaterbury'.

I need to use my spell checker, for all its limitations, to check for my typos.

When posting I re-read several times before submitting but I still use 'Edit' too often.

Og the digitally challenged.

 

[damppanties]

'adn' and 'teh'. Plus some words I can't remember right now but I do know that when they happen, I roll my eyes and go - 'Not again!'

 

[SlickTony]

In Microsoft Word, Autocorrect is your friend. Pity it won't operate anywhere else.

 

[Guest]

I see we all have words that our fingers just don't like to type correctly. I am sure that I have more than just the an/and problem. It's just the one that stands out the most.

 

[lucky-E-leven]

I find myself grouping two words that I know do not belong together. My brain has a glitch that just refuses to unkink itself and whenever I need to write every one, it always comes out as one word. I can even see it coming and consciously tell myself to break them apart, and yet the fingers fly right through and lump them together.

I also have a tendency to type an 'L' after words ending in 'Y'. Not sure why and it sucks because I'm lucky on here....normally have to backspace so I'm not luckyl....

~luckyl

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I've been having a serious problem with substituting semi-colons for apostrophes for about 5-6 months now, ever since I got this new keyboard. I've tried to retrain myself, but nothing seems to work. Drives me nuts. And what's worse is, words like 'don;t' and 'doesn;t' are starting to look okay to me now.

---dr.M.

 

[A7inchPhildo]

I've been having a serious problem with substituting semi-colons for apostrophes for about 5-6 months now, ever since I got this new keyboard. I've tried to retrain myself, but nothing seems to work. Drives me nuts. And what's worse is, words like 'don;t' and 'doesn;t' are starting to look okay to me now.

---dr.M.

I don,t understand your problem Dr M.

 

[lewdandlicentious]

It's really weird that someone should start a thread about unintentional typo's, ie, hitting the wrong keys.

I do it all the time, it makes me quite mad to have to go back all the time.

I'm forever typing "i" instead of "I" which I'm quite fussy about. I often have to go back and correct it.

The worst one I ever did was one day when I was typing something to my dear lady wife. I meant to type:

"My darling you mean the world to me and I love you more than life itself!"

But what I actually typed was:

"You fucking bitch, you've ruined my entire fucking life!"

Those simple little mistakes can be quite maddening can't they????

 

[Guest]

And you have the fucking cheek to pick me up on MY typo's???

Jeez...

Lou

 

[lewdandlicentious]

I know, ain't it the pits???

 

[Guest]

I've been having a serious problem with substituting semi-colons for apostrophes for about 5-6 months now, ever since I got this new keyboard. I've tried to retrain myself, but nothing seems to work. Drives me nuts. And what's worse is, words like 'don;t' and 'doesn;t' are starting to look okay to me now.

---dr.M.

LOL, dr.M., Alot of times, mine will end up with an extra apostrophe. Don't'