Typos are the bane of the fumble fingered everywhere.
I suppose I should not complain... a simple backspace is a breeze compared to the white-out or begin-again of the previous option; the typewriter. I am convinced that if I had a laptop instead of that antiquated device available to me in high school, my life would be much different! Cursed with a completely illegible handwriting, I bailed to a Mickey Mouse English course, leaving what I am convinced would have been brilliant essays locked in my busy, if slightly tranquilized mind. Oh yeah... sure Einstien.
Anyway; the matter of typographical errors have produced application imporovements to help us. Predictive text as found in most phones is a great tool not only reducing mistakes but also speeding up texting. Spellcheck where available is also a great help but only works if the mistake is not actually a word.
The folks at BlackBerry must have known know I am a terrible typoist and have included an automatic fix for many of the most common errors, including most contractions. Bless 'em. They forgot my most common one though; oyu still came out looking like oyu until I mamanged to add it to the list.
Our language is not a static entity, it is constantly evolving. There is even a new word to describe words that result from the same combination of numbers; they are called "textonyms".
I think we have all seen this in email form:
"Arocdnicg to rsceearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer are in the rghit pcale. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit pobelrm. Tihs is buseace the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe."
Apparently no such study actually took place at Cambridge, but as this really looks a lot like a badly typoed paragraph it can show that we can communicate just as well sloppily.
I am guilty; there are times when I am fully aware of hitting enter or send knowing there are blunders in my text. I am lazy. Sue me. Conversely I am fully fluent in typoese and will forgive yours and not point them out to you or make fun of you, unless it changes the message at least.
I do agree we need to cherish and nurture our language so it does not morph completely out of recognition. At the end of the day though; I am only trying to communicate and if you understood what I was trying to say, I have achieved success.
I suppose I should not complain... a simple backspace is a breeze compared to the white-out or begin-again of the previous option; the typewriter. I am convinced that if I had a laptop instead of that antiquated device available to me in high school, my life would be much different! Cursed with a completely illegible handwriting, I bailed to a Mickey Mouse English course, leaving what I am convinced would have been brilliant essays locked in my busy, if slightly tranquilized mind. Oh yeah... sure Einstien.
Anyway; the matter of typographical errors have produced application imporovements to help us. Predictive text as found in most phones is a great tool not only reducing mistakes but also speeding up texting. Spellcheck where available is also a great help but only works if the mistake is not actually a word.
The folks at BlackBerry must have known know I am a terrible typoist and have included an automatic fix for many of the most common errors, including most contractions. Bless 'em. They forgot my most common one though; oyu still came out looking like oyu until I mamanged to add it to the list.
Our language is not a static entity, it is constantly evolving. There is even a new word to describe words that result from the same combination of numbers; they are called "textonyms".
I think we have all seen this in email form:
"Arocdnicg to rsceearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer are in the rghit pcale. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit pobelrm. Tihs is buseace the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe."
Apparently no such study actually took place at Cambridge, but as this really looks a lot like a badly typoed paragraph it can show that we can communicate just as well sloppily.
I am guilty; there are times when I am fully aware of hitting enter or send knowing there are blunders in my text. I am lazy. Sue me. Conversely I am fully fluent in typoese and will forgive yours and not point them out to you or make fun of you, unless it changes the message at least.
I do agree we need to cherish and nurture our language so it does not morph completely out of recognition. At the end of the day though; I am only trying to communicate and if you understood what I was trying to say, I have achieved success.
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