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Strange typos. Sign of getting old?
Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2021 9:36 pm
by Victoria Raverna
Lately I spend a lot of time on discord text channels and one thing that I noticed is that I made a lot of typos but some of them are strange. Seem like my brain got a bit scrambled.
For example sometime when I to type "want", I ended up with "one".
Anyone has experience like that? Is that normal for a brain to function like that? In my head it is "want" but my fingers type "one".
Re: Strange typos. Sign of getting old?
Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2021 9:53 pm
by Sudy
Re: Strange typos. Sign of getting old?
Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2021 10:45 pm
by dbt1949
I make typos all the time because my typing fingers are slower than my brain. I'm thinking many words a head of what I'm typing and the next thing I know I typing the word a couple of words a head for what I'm thinking now.
Re: Strange typos. Sign of getting old?
Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2021 10:56 pm
by Kraken
And I thought I was having deja vu.
There are some words my fingers get wrong every time. Whenever I want to type "globe," it comes out "bloge" unless I slow down and think about it deliberately. I haven't noticed this getting worse with age, but I can't remember being young so who knows.
Re: Strange typos. Sign of getting old?
Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2021 11:15 pm
by Lassr
I may ahve occasionally typed a totally differnt word than I emant to but it is rare.
My problem is my fingers tend to hit the keys i nthe wrong order when I'm typing fast.
So I purposely left the errors above to show you my most common typos. Those are actual errors and not me doing it on purpose.
If I slow down it doesn't happen. And "in the" or "on the" often ends up like above, more so than me getting it right. And I constantly swap letter next to each other.
Re: Strange typos. Sign of getting old?
Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 1:13 am
by Buatha
I notice that at some times, my mind will map my fingers wrong a bit...then it goes away. For instance, I kept hitting 'p' for 9. It happened for a bit, but after concentrating on not doing it, stopped. <shrug>
Then again, I repeat myself...more. Hitting 50 seems to have kicked off all sorts of crap at times.
Re: Strange typos. Sign of getting old?
Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 7:07 am
by LordMortis
I'm still around after decades of this. Of course my health is for shit at 50 and I really don't an improved lifestyle I intend to keep when I get to retirement or medicine keeping around, so maybe you're on to something.
Re: Strange typos. Sign of getting old?
Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 9:06 am
by Unagi
LordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 7:07 am
I'm still around after decades of this. Of course my health is for shit at 50 and I really don't an improved lifestyle I intend to keep when I get to retirement or medicine keeping around, so maybe you're on to something.
I also do the mysterious missing word thing from time to time
Re: Strange typos. Sign of getting old?
Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 9:19 am
by LordMortis
Unagi wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 9:06 am
LordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 7:07 am
I'm still around after decades of this. Of course my health is for shit at 50 and I really don't an improved lifestyle I intend to keep when I get to retirement or medicine keeping around, so maybe you're on to something.
I also do the mysterious missing word thing from time to time
It's especially strange to me that I can't see my mistakes until they are nested in your quote "I really don't
see an improved lifestyle I intend to keep when I get to retirement or medicine keeping
me around"
Re: Strange typos. Sign of getting old?
Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 10:29 am
by Lassr
LordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 9:19 am
Unagi wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 9:06 am
LordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 7:07 am
I'm still around after decades of this. Of course my health is for shit at 50 and I really don't an improved lifestyle I intend to keep when I get to retirement or medicine keeping around, so maybe you're on to something.
I also do the mysterious missing word thing from time to time
It's especially strange to me that I can't see my mistakes until they are nested in your quote "I really don't
see an improved lifestyle I intend to keep when I get to retirement or medicine keeping
me around"
I often do the missing word also. Spellcheck can't catch that unfortunately.
Re: Strange typos. Sign of getting old?
Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 11:57 am
by LawBeefaroni
LordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 9:19 am
Unagi wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 9:06 am
LordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 7:07 am
I'm still around after decades of this. Of course my health is for shit at 50 and I really don't an improved lifestyle I intend to keep when I get to retirement or medicine keeping around, so maybe you're on to something.
I also do the mysterious missing word thing from time to time
It's especially strange to me that I can't see my mistakes until they are nested in your quote "I really don't
see an improved lifestyle I intend to keep when I get to retirement or medicine keeping
me around"
I never see your mistakes either. I've gotten very good at translating from LordMortis-ese in my head.
I find myself with a lot more strange typos but 100% due to using a phone keyboard.
Re: Strange typos. Sign of getting old?
Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 1:20 pm
by Rumpy
Easier to make typos when autocorrect jumps ahead before you're able to notice anything is out of place. I'd have times where I correct it and have it autocorrected back.
Re: Strange typos. Sign of getting old?
Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 3:26 pm
by Alefroth
My most common mistakes are capitalizing the first two letters of a word, or getting the space swrong. Also leaving off n't from contractions sometimes. That can make a big difference.
edited for typo
Re: Strange typos. Sign of getting old?
Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 3:45 pm
by LordMortis
Alefroth wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 3:26 pm
Also leaving off 'nt from contractions sometimes. That can make a big difference.
I do that a lot and I don't know why or how to stop it. Explicitly affirming instead of explicitly negating and not seeing until it's too late sucks it big time.
Re: Strange typos. Sign of getting old?
Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 3:49 pm
by Alefroth
LordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 3:45 pm
Alefroth wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 3:26 pm
Also leaving off 'nt from contractions sometimes. That can make a big difference.
I do that a lot and I don't know why or how to stop it. Explicitly affirming instead of explicitly negating and not seeing until it's too late sucks it big time.
It's like the biggest impact three characters can have. Also don't know what to do about it except be hyper vigilant.
Re: Strange typos. Sign of getting old?
Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 4:03 pm
by Isgrimnur
Alefroth wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 3:49 pm
LordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 3:45 pm
Alefroth wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 3:26 pm
Also leaving off 'nt from contractions sometimes. That can make a big difference.
I do that a lot and I don't know why or how to stop it. Explicitly affirming instead of explicitly negating and not seeing until it's too late sucks it big time.
It's like the biggest impact three characters can have. Also dont know what to do about it except be hyper vigila.
Re: Strange typos. Sign of getting old?
Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 8:33 pm
by Alefroth
See?
Re: Strange typos. Sign of getting old?
Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 8:41 pm
by Default
I HATE hyper vagina.
Re: Strange typos. Sign of getting old?
Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 10:18 pm
by Jeff V
What I like about OO is you can correct such typos if you catch them in time, or just blame LM. Other forums aren't so forgiving, and that can lead to much embarrassment.
Re: Strange typos. Sign of getting old?
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 3:13 am
by Alefroth
What are these 'other forums' you mention?
Re: Strange typos. Sign of getting old?
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 5:41 am
by Formix
Funny you should mention this. About a year ago (at 50...hmmmm) I noticed I type a ; when I want a ' ALMOST EVERY TIME. I have never made this mistake before. If I ever get pod-personed, they'll know it's not me if they correctly type contractions.
Re: Strange typos. Sign of getting old?
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 7:56 am
by Lassr
Formix wrote: ↑Thu Jun 17, 2021 5:41 am
Funny you should mention this. About a year ago (at 50...hmmmm) I noticed I type a ; when I want a ' ALMOST EVERY TIME. I have never made this mistake before. If I ever get pod-personed, they'll know it's not me if they correctly type contractions.
I started doing this also in the past few years. It's like my pinkie has gotten too lazy to go one more key.
Re: Strange typos. Sign of getting old?
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 7:58 am
by Sudy
I still can't type Morrowind without typing Morrowing every damn time for some reason.