i don'y yhink yhay's yhe righy leyyer !

Published on September 5, 2004 By mignuna In Blogging

I am no speed typist, but I do okay for myself with the glaring exception of my striking the "y" key in place of the "t" whenever I try to type too quickly or am overtired.

For the sake of demonstrating just how challenging this can make deciphering the resultant 'writing', I will now switch to the problematic "y" instead of "t" mode for the remainder of this (thankfully short) blog.

Iy sneaks up on me. I yhink I'm fine, yhen I syary yo gey yired and iy happens. My fingers syary a fighy over who geys yo press yhe keys, and before I know iy, I'm presenyed wiyh a finished producy yhay reads like some yhpe of syrange pidgeon.

Yhe spell checker hayes iy almosy as much as I do, and yhay is saying someyhing. Iy yries yo shame me by yhinking up 'replacemeny' words yhay make yhe problem even worse. Whay is a girl yo do, I ask you ?. I should learn yo yype as quickly as I yhink, buy, unyil yhen, I'm syuck wiyh yhe slipping fingers and iy's no laughing mayyer !.

Comments

historyishere

on Sep 05, 2004

Actually, once you get a hang of it, it isn't too bad to read with the y typo....

The Crusaders

on Sep 05, 2004

Mignuna,
You may appreciate this sent to me by my Dad who is an English Teacher ...ofcourse!!
You should have no problem readng it and if you do....let me know?!

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
what oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht
the frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a
toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we
do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
ceehiro

Muggaz

on Sep 06, 2004

y dan button doesn't work, so alot of y post's wont make any sense because of y faulty button!

anywho - how are you - it sees the only way to counicate with you with you is through your blog

(very funny stuff TC

)

BA!!!

notsohighlyevolved

on Sep 06, 2004

I agree with historyishere. It's amazing how quickly the brain adapts and starts ignoring the "y"s all together and reading the words based on a weird pattern recognition system. It will quickly scan the word and find out if a y actually belongs there. If not it doesn't really replace the y's with t's, but recognises the word as if it was a word with blanks instead of one or two letters. It works much like some communications technology that completes commonly used words for you as your typing.

I must say that, sometimes, what occupies your attention is a little bit scary, a little bit crazy, but if it wasn't for this type of human curiosity and attention to detail we wouldn't have those wonderful creatures, entomologists.

Marco

mignuna

on Sep 06, 2004

Actually, once you get a hang of it, it isn't too bad to read with the y typo....

yhankyou, hisyory is here

You should have no problem readng it and if you do....let me know?!

no problem at all, crusaders, and i enjoyed reading that !

y dan button doesn't work, so alot of y post's wont make any sense because of y faulty button!

yah, i blame the button, too, muggy

anywho - how are you - it sees the only way to counicate with you with you is through your blog

ooooh, sorry. i think a phone call is due hehe

It will quickly scan the word and find out if a y actually belongs there. If not it doesn't really replace the y's with t's, but recognises the word as if it was a word with blanks instead of one or two letters

it's funny, isn't it ?. it was much harder to type that way deliberately, though !

I must say that, sometimes, what occupies your attention is a little bit scary, a little bit crazy, but if it wasn't for this type of human curiosity and attention to detail we wouldn't have those wonderful creatures, entomologists

thankyou. i think ?

vanessa/mig XX

SSG Geezer

on Sep 06, 2004

I appreciate occasional mitsakes so we can slam the flamer who left it out for everyone to sea.

mignuna

on Sep 08, 2004

I appreciate occasional mitsakes so we can slam the flamer who left it out for everyone to sea

i'm glad you do, ssg geezer. mitsakes are not so bad sometimes hehe

vanessa/mig XX

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