Weird glitches in your writing

[lovecraft68]

I've noticed over the years there are some things I repeatedly either type wrong due to how I type or flat out consistently spell wrong.

Its to the point I refer to them as glitches, like a misfire between the brain and fingers.

A couple of examples.

He put his hands on her...

Constantly comes out as hand son.

That's a pure typing issue, one finger's too fast or something.

The other that I just did which sparked me to start this thread is

Next door.

I am always typing next store. Now that seems to be a mental thing as they're nowhere near the same spelling.

Also I cannot ever spell the word rhythm ( I just used spell check to fix it in this post)

These things happen to you?

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I have found that those glitches occur most often when my mind is writing faster than my fingers can keep up.

Mostly, I tend to leave off the 's' of plurals. Or the 'y' off they. Or the 'r' off your.

 

[jaF0]

Double letters. Words like 'collar' too often come out as 'colalr'.

 

[Jada59]

Highly unlikely that I'd use the word here but when I type "thyroid" it almost always comes out as "thryoid",

 

[KeithD]

I transpose between "I" and "a" a lot (as single words). I also have the problem most have with it's/its, and it isn't from not knowing the difference between them.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Constantly comes out as hand son.

That's a pure typing issue, one finger's too fast or something.

The other that I just did which sparked me to start this thread is

Next door.

I am always typing next store.

That's not typing, LC that's a Freudian slip, and too much shopping .

My worst was writing a long essay back in uni days. I glitched on the word "the" for two days - couldn't spell it properly, didn't know what it meant, didn't know how to use it.

Nowadays, it's predictive text I've got to watch. Worse than Freud, that's for sure (or more accurate, maybe) .

 

[ChloeTzang]

I've noticed over the years there are some things I repeatedly either type wrong due to how I type or flat out consistently spell wrong.

These things happen to you?

All the time. I don't think about it. I just type as fast as I can get the words out and come back and edit later.

 

[MistressLyda]

Routinely. English is my preferred language, but it is not my native, so I have quite a few grammatical hiccups and mixed up words.

Oddly enough, I can't think of any examples right now.

 

[LoquiSordidaAdMe]

Oddly enough, I can't think of any examples right now.

Ditto. I know I have several. I recognize them as frequently recurring "glitches" when I see them. But for the life of me, I can't recall what they are at the moment.

 

[oggbashan]

I have the basic free Grammarly switched on while I'm typing.

My most frequent glitch is teh for the.

The next is missing capital letters at the start of a sentence. I hit the Control key instead of the Shift key.

The worst glitch is my most annoying one. I don't keep names consistent. When I start a story I'm not sure that the original character names will be suitable when the draft is complete. Although I use Search/Replace I sometimes miss errors with possessives - Mary's doesn't get changed to Amy's even though Mary has become Amy everywhere else.

 

[NotWise]

For reasons I can't fathom, I consistently type "eye's" instead of "eyes."

 

[weftandwarp]

My cat loves sleeping with his head on my tablet. He's not good at spelling. He's so bad it doesn't make sense at all.

 

[8letters]

I'm a super-slow writer because what I type is total crap. I constantly correct myself as I type, regularly stop to re-read what I write and correct it, and that is still full of glitches - spaces in the wrong place, left out words, homonyms, misspells, etc. For a stretch, I was writing "check" whenever I meant "cheek" - "Tears streamed down her checks."

 

[HectorBidon]

I sometimes find I've typed "coukld" instead of "could." When my ring finger is on the O and my index finger is on the U, that puts my middle finger over the K. I guess while I'm bringing my ring finger down to type the L I accidentally come down with my middle finger on the K as well. Perhaps it's a mechanical linkage between the fingers, because I don't usually insert extra letters, even when I'm typing fast.

The funny thing is that a google search of "coukld" finds 17k hits, most of them this same misspelling of "could." So I guess whatever it is I'm doing, other people are doing it too.

Turns out there is an urban dictionary entry for "Typelexia" which refers to making these typing mistakes. The definition implies that it is an "impairment," although I think, like many of the other posters here, that it is just a "glitch."

 

[jaF0]

My most frequent glitch is teh for the.

I do that so often I started a thread on it a while back. But the search here sucks so bad, I can't find it any more.

 

[TxRad]

You would think that typing with three fingers, well, two fingers and a thumb, the "glitches" would be small but.... Go to type she and end up with the. The biggest one is the space before the last letter of a word.

A half dozen keys on the keyboard have no mark on them. That doesn't present a problem. Hitting more than one key at a time, now there is a problem.

There are a couple dozen more of these "glitches" but...

 

[_Lynn_]

I sometimes hit the caps lock instead of the a, which annoys the hell out of me.

 

[KeithD]

I sometimes hit the caps lock instead of the a, which annoys the hell out of me.

Or instead of the shift key and then you do know you've gone into unintentional caps until hitting the second letter.

 

[LoquiSordidaAdMe]

Ok, I found one. I'm working on a story with a character named Adam, but every time I type it, that 'A' key gets a little over excited, and it comes out "Adama". Every. Damn. Time.

Maybe it's a sign from the universe that I need to write a Battlestar Galactica fan fic.