Typos

[Ainsley]

I have the worst time with typos...one of the bad things is that sometimes leaving a letter off or adding one actually produces a viable word which can utterly change the message...

Never had this particular occurance, though...I have a spring cold and my nose is very stuffed up.  I was writing out a copost with Jane and I was writing "Very nice to meet you," and actually wrote "Very nice to beet you."  Could have been a regular typo but since that is how I would be saying it right now, I thought that was kind of funny.  

I fixed the typo of course...didn't really fit with the scene as it was.  

Anyone else struggle with typos?

[Vix]

I tend to transpose letters --- ot for to and other similar mistakes.

[Jane]

Every no wand then a space turn sup in the wrongs pot.

[Kaysea]

Meet the Typonese Queen!

If you can read typos then you're my best friend!

Doesn't help, of course, that I'm the Typonese Queen and I only just got my spell checker working again.  *sighs*

[emma]

I think the worst I had was with outlook express after I upgraded Office 2000 to Office 2007.  It left OE with a french spellcheck!  And as my french is limited to useful phrases like'Shut up!', 'Where is the toilet?' and 'Turn right', plus various expletives....

It then decided on English (Australian).... It took forever to get it back to English(British) Although I'm not sure what the difference is between the two variants. I mean 'colour' has a 'U' in it, 'metre' is spelt with '-re' on the end still ;)

[Jane]

I think one of the differences between English (New Zealand) and other Commonwealth versions is our use of -ise endings in preference to -ize.  Organise, familiarise, realise, etc.  I can't think of anything else that would be different.

[emma]

I'd use -ise  over -ize.  The Oxford English dictionary lists both spellings as acceptable, but lists the -ise first.  I have to check anything that goes on a web page at work as working for a law firm means that sometimes the alternative speelings may have different meanings in court.

And Jane, somehow that 10am tram, has become an 11am tram....

[Eimi]

Living in Japan has definitely helped me earn the title of typo-master.  I catch them 60% of the time before I send them out, but my spelling (which wasn't perfect to begin with) has gone totally south, not to mention my vocabulary.  Sometimes I have to sit there and really think about how to spell a common word!  The other day it was "nephew".  I couldn't remember if it was "nefew", "neffew", or "nephew"!  

I also am guilt for sometimes typing pigeon English.  I spoke pigeon English with the kids I worked with at uni for five years.  Its like a totally different kind of English.  The syntax and the pronunciation is just a little off, but its quickly and easily understood by Japanese students.  I try not to use it with my school kids now, but its a hard habit to break.  So sometimes I'll type things like "Where do you go now?" instead of "where are you going?"  Or "Do you go?" instead of "Are you going?".   I can usually figure out something is off, but sometimes...

I joined Triad when I came to Japan partially to help me keep up on my Enlgish vocabulary and spelling.  Could you imagine what it would have been like if I HADN'T had daily practice?  *shudders*

[Paula]

Being non-english-speaker, I do lot of typos and spelling errors. (Well, typos are often results typing faster than my mind can catch up with english.) Not to mention confusing words that either look similar or meaning is almost same. Crab/crap, stranger/foreigner for instance.

[Jane]

Not to mention confusing words that either look similar or meaning is almost same. Crab/crap...

I have a bad feeling about anybody crabbing along the ledge. :laughing5:

[Ainsley]

Being non-english-speaker, I do lot of typos and spelling errors. (Well, typos are often results typing faster than my mind can catch up with english.)

Not that this is particularly on topic, but...I just had to tell you, Paula, you write very much like a great friend of mine in college!  Brilliant gal!  Spoke seven languages and was just a dear.  We wrote for years but have fallen out of touch.  She was from Switzerland.