tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post6645997606453779514..comments2023-11-10T04:17:00.492-05:00Comments on View From The Porch: Yow.Tamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-32813060822015603542014-05-28T14:11:46.429-04:002014-05-28T14:11:46.429-04:00Heh. I type with five fingers - three on one hand...Heh. I type with five fingers - three on one hand and two on the other (and not the same five fingers, consistently).<br /><br />Back when buying food meant documenting my ability at such, I was tested at 55+ wpm with that technique. Now? not so much. . . Geodkythttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09328915597574377444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-32883809699200932452014-05-26T05:19:25.379-04:002014-05-26T05:19:25.379-04:00Og wrote "Fortunately I can correct pretty fa...Og wrote "Fortunately I can correct pretty fast too."; which should have read "Fortunately I can correct pretty quickly too." Revise adverbs ;-)Ole Phat Stuhttp://www.savory.de/blog.htmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-62259656137169165662014-05-25T01:18:42.781-04:002014-05-25T01:18:42.781-04:00Alien:
Have some ice cream first. :-)
I'm st...Alien:<br /><br />Have some ice cream first. :-)<br /><br />I'm <i>still</i> finding stupid mistakes I put up on my own web-site years ago!<br /><br /><b>BSR</b>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-71933089774442589682014-05-24T22:56:34.136-04:002014-05-24T22:56:34.136-04:00I don't think any of the kids today would have...I don't think any of the kids today would have any idea what you're talking about when you speak of Mavis Beacon.<br /><br />And as our generations masters the query keyboard, we sit in utter amazement about how they can do unfathomable feats of typing with mobile keyboards.<br /><br />It all comes down to practice. I took piano lessons from the time I was 5 until I was 22. There's right ways and wrong ways to do fingerings on that keyboard too, but Carl Czerny be damned, some of that shit just never worked for me, or the size of my hand.<br /><br />Typing is honestly kind of the same thing.Sebastianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14648225987293475835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-82379453332835353832014-05-24T18:17:32.116-04:002014-05-24T18:17:32.116-04:00@BSR - No excuse, guilty as charged.
I edited th...@BSR - No excuse, guilty as charged. <br /><br />I edited that comment several times in about 6 minutes to tighten it, and proofed it 4 times, but didn't print it or read it aloud. I caught the error on the first reading after Tam put it in comments, about 4 hours after I typed it. I learned, doing engineering documentation, to let stuff sit at least two days before re-proofing, and sometimes that wasn't enough. The only <i>mea culpa</i> exoneration I can claim is that it wasn't "Their riding in they're knew read car." <br /><br />I'm sending myself to bed without supper....Aliennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-21807102855672927902014-05-24T17:07:39.150-04:002014-05-24T17:07:39.150-04:00Alien said . . .
"... the same it true ...&q...<i>Alien said . . .<br /><br />"... the same it true ..."</i> :-)<br /><br />I've found that I need to wait three days or more to catch my own mistakes. A week is even better. Then it's more like I'm reading someone else's writing. It's much easier to catch your own mistakes when your brain has completely emptied it's read-forward cache.<br /><br /><b>BSR</b>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-53935430618321903902014-05-24T13:58:24.261-04:002014-05-24T13:58:24.261-04:00I've embarrassed myself with that one a few ti...I've embarrassed myself with that one a few times in the last while.<br /><br />Thesis: unwarranted overconfidence in one's keyboard skills leads to more rapid typing, and what comes out is (maybe) a homonyn, or something vagely resembling English.<br /><br />Whatever the brain signalled to the fingers first just bypasses the mental spell checker and appears on the screen.<br /><br />To one's mortification, if "Send" has already been hit, and it usually has.<br /><br />Which is pretty much what you said anyway.John Peddie (Toronto)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13352390633776699430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-21857621021312928242014-05-24T12:57:04.113-04:002014-05-24T12:57:04.113-04:00Either not enough coffee, or too much. ;^)Either not enough coffee, or too much. ;^)Darrellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-62977392269769203332014-05-24T11:58:07.867-04:002014-05-24T11:58:07.867-04:00"Homonym replacement."
Yup, only mine is..."Homonym replacement."<br />Yup, only mine is a sort of mispronunciation in the manner of a dialect, for some reason, and I use all 8 fingers mostly in the approved manner.Windy Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01951254236693386401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-4339291079525265842014-05-24T11:32:00.450-04:002014-05-24T11:32:00.450-04:00I learned many years ago that my typing style - no...I learned many years ago that my typing style - not significantly different from yours - dictates a heavy proofread before it goes out in public. <br /><br />I've increasingly noticed that homonym substitution, along with apostrophe abuse, is endemic on Mr. Gore's Intertubes, and seemingly even more so among those who should know better. (I won't go into what I saw over the years in the technical papers that crossed my desk: brilliant engineers who would not make the intitial cut at Engrish.com....)<br /><br />I can't attribute it to generic sloppiness because "they're" is more, and different, keystrokes than "their" or "there." The same it true for interposing an apostrophe to make "it's" instead of "its." I've assumed some sort of brain fart is responsible, except that the error is repeated <i>ad nauseum</i> throughout a document, and brain farts are usually a single event, <br />not a series. Spell check doesn't help, even if one knows to use it. Never having used Dragon (or similar products), I can't assign blame to them, but I have my suspicions. <br /><br />I do understand the compromises one makes in a rushed post, slid betwixt myriad more important tasks, especially where brain speed exceeds finger speed by orders of magnitude, but I can't help but disdain those who perpetually disregard simple rules of grammar; if the restrooms in a restaurant are dirty it's reasonable to question what the kitchen looks like. Aliennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-52366497740324235872014-05-24T11:09:48.768-04:002014-05-24T11:09:48.768-04:00I got the same thing going on but I use the left i...I got the same thing going on but I use the left index,the left thumb (Shift and spacebar) the right index, and the right middle finger. I can type pretty fast but not very accurate. Fortunately I can correct pretty fast too. oghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07551049745184408924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-10725389757268498552014-05-24T11:02:20.220-04:002014-05-24T11:02:20.220-04:00Happens to me as well, and I no how two type . . ....Happens to me as well, and I no how two type . . . <br /><br />;)Erich505https://www.blogger.com/profile/04059604778613074084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-30257727377346562872014-05-24T11:00:16.066-04:002014-05-24T11:00:16.066-04:00Gertrude Stein would have really been engaging in ...Gertrude Stein would have really been engaging in whimsy had she said "Their is no they're, there."Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11402651457453813639noreply@blogger.com