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There are so many stories which contain the word 'form' instead of 'from', has anybody noticed?
It drives me carzy or is that crazy!
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That was well done!
Thanks mittfh.
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What borders on pure insanity?
Canada and Mexico.
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I am mildly dislexic
and probably spelled that wrong.... plus, my fingers seem to find exactly the wrong key at the right time. Spell checker helps, but what I need is the equivalent for sentence structure, punctuation, ect. and so on. In other words, I need the worlds most patient editor in history....
"Treat everyone you meet as though they had a sign on them that said "Fragile, under construction"
dorothycolleen
All of these comments
remind me of some of Stephen Fry's comments on grammar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht2ZAxMqlIk
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY
Enjoy,
Diana
mia culpa
I have dyslexic fingers (sorry not very PC, but then that's another of my faults). I tend to type teh a lot instead of the, but then Word red squigglies it for me. Unfortunately form is a word properly spelt in its own right and Word's context checker (blue squigglies) isn't clever enough to pick this up for some reason. No matter how much I read through, there are always a few that escape. Maybe I should use the search function to look for the word form afterwards. Then I can do the same for bot, but and bit (three vowels that live side by side on the keyboard; another common mistake of mine).
Sorry if I'm repeating what others have said already, but I'm tired and I can't be bothered to read through 46 comments to see what's been said already. I know, bad from (oh bu**er)
It's all the fault of the Qwerty Keyboard
Deliberately designed to make it difficult to type and to offer an advertising gimmick, because it was possible to spell out the word "TYPEWRITER" on a single row.
Stephen Jay Gould has a lovely essay on the QWERTY keyboard in his book, Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History.
Well worth reading.
Dvorak Simplified Keyboard
Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style
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Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style
How long...
...does it take to retrain to use Dvorak? I've often thought about it, but Qwerty is more or less second nature now and I'd hate to confuse my poor little thinkatron.
As an editor, I have to say, form/from is one of MY major probs
It's what I think of as a left hand/right hand mistake, where the two letters are type\d with opposite hands, and one hand or the other gets there a bit too soo.
I mix form and from,
& the with teh, or even eth; Sometimes I think I've founda dozen ways to spell 'the' incorrectly, all with just t, h & e.
and there are several others.
I know about them, and check for them on any serious writing I do, by doing a 'find' or 'search' ( depending on the word processor), and usually catch most of them.
When editing, I usually let it slide as a typo, other than fixing it, unless I see it a lot. Far more obnoxious are crossing:
then' with 'than', or various homophones, where the incorrect sound-alike or near sound-alike word is used.
Those are words I do tell the writer about, as they are not just typos.
It’s not given to anyone to have no regrets; only to decide, through the choices we make, which regrets we’ll have,
David Weber – In Fury Born
Holly
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
Holly
mindfrack
I just tried working through the permutations for three different letters (Not so difficult I know, just take the factorial of the number of characters which gives you six for 'the' (unless of course we introduce imaginary letters (well if maths can have imaginary numbers why not? (sorry for the nested brackets)))).
Anyway where I was going with this was I typed in the different permutations in Excel then couldn't figure out what the frack was going on until I realised that Microsoft had auto-corrected three of the entries. I mean doh!
I'm guilty
I'm always typing "form" instead of "from". But with me its a case of typing too fast and not going back to check it. After all spell check doesn't pick it up because "form" is a word. It drives me nuts.
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