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Nothing major, but looking at thing's *you've* posted, do they appear as if somebody else typed them?

I've noticed a classic swapping of *think* and *thing* and vice versa. A 'classic' as a fair few people do this one.

Something being typed as *somthing* and at times what appears to be random letters in words. ie.

The cat sat on tha mat. Err "tha mat" the 'A' key and the "E" are close, yes but not *that* close?

In life I've seen people transpose digit's, so £1.58 is written as £1.85 *how* ???

I've been on the phone and when giving out a phone number: I say "seven" and the person at the other end report's on read-back "two". Seven and two don't sound alike do they?

I can understand frustration faced by dyslexic people, and that could extend to numbers.

However, is it possible to be 'typing dyslexic' or even 'hearing dyslexic' and yet not suffer from dyslexia when writing with a pen, or reading a text script?

I have recently lost the ability to type the, yeah I did it for once! Its far more likely to come out as teh all the time, and when you consider how often you type teh (and that mistake wasn't done on purpose!), its really quite annoying!

All the exams I did in order to determine myself as an average normal intelligent person, I passed. But in real life, I'm just silly me. Everyone behaves in that certain official way, and I have no option but to believe them. I cannot make a fuss when I clearly hear 'seven' and the one at the other end of the telephone line says 'no, it's two I said'. Sometimes I just think they do it on purpose. Just to spite me.

I've been thinking about starting a trhead on Ask where epeople post what they atype the first time. Someo f the tstuff that come out of my keybaord is really wired.



I think we are more dyslexic in type because we go faster than our skill level (well i do).

I often type teh too . Lately I've been experimenting with making mental note each time I do it so that I learn to take more care - hopefully that will become automatic after awhile.

I didn't know about aural dyslexia, although I often miss hearing words people say (as if the word just dropped out of the sentence).

I meant to say too that I'm slightly dyslexic with a pen when I handwrite fast too, especially if I am more focussed on the content than the writing.

There is a big difference between people who use the description of dyslexic, because they type fast and bad, or write fast, and those who have to live with real dyslexia.

I wouldn't want anyone who has the real thing to be offended by lots of people trying to jump on the band wagon as an excuse for bad typing or handwriting.

I tend to do the thing where I don't put my fingers on the two nubbins, and end up touch-typing complete twaddle.

(I very much doubt there's a medical term for that...)

Well it's good to know I'n not entirely alone in this. Maybe the "teh" phenomena[*1] is a result of reading many of 2legs U16973 post; now I regard as *signature* not error.

The 'typo' fixed in the above paragrah was "meny of" instead of "many of." Dyslexic or a phonetic thinker...

Before I went to school, I could read and write (in a block style.[*2]), school may have something to answer for in peoples language skils: The "say it as it sound's." rule to reading. - Rubbish!!! in my opinion, say it as _it_ is, after all we say "cub~ard" - "cub~erd" etc. never "cup-board" yet we store items in a cupboard. It's not a board we put cup's on, it's 'a box' with a door, maybe a shelf or two in it?

Even when the 'rules' are know, having a "freind" not a "friend" typed, or the wrong 'there' place in a post, can cause a grown. Then there are people that ignore the internet rule of "don't take the peist" just becase somebody did not have the same learning as others. People can be anoyed with themself well enough without further insult, I've found over the years. It's just their reaction that may vary.

The "typing faster than ability." Yep, I'll go for that. Speach is seven times faster than writing, so how much faster is thought to *button bashing* then?

[*1] When I see or hear that word, I think of Jim Henderson's 'Muppet show' "phenomina -do, do, 'da', do-do, phe..." So maybe I am also in the "silly me" brigade?

[*2] Cursive or "curly" writing, it must have been about seven, when the school system finaly decided *we* needed to know about it. That's two or three years from the 'offical' UK schooling start age, excluding any home/pre-school nusery learning. - Do I use it today, nope, not much. From starting work, everything that required a label, an instruction, a report had to be block printed or typed. Maybe a Christmas or birthday card get's *hand written* but I don't much bother with it. - Possibly those big pens with silver or gold ink does not look right in formal letters?

Yet when writing in this style, there are seldom errors... As if the time it takes to 'draw' letters is enough check in real time the forming of words. - The frustration then become "can't get the words down quick enough."

Conclusion: I think it's about time computer software for speach to text was developed beyond "file open new" - "Arrrrg! I mean back new-file you -ing stuipd computer!" and the software more receptive to different people; not just one user.

Re: post 7 and 8. Medical term, how about: *bash -ye-not-hard-enough* ?

Re: post 9 (mine). Right away I've spotted three typos. "I'n" in paragraph #1 should be "I'm." In para #2 "i" should be "I." Para #3 "place" that's "placed."

The *conclusion.* Well, on second thought, learning to 'touch-type' *before* going near a computer may be an idea?

Calligraphy. Since I started using the keyboard some odd twenty years ago, my handwriting deteriorated. Sometimes even to myself it has become illegible.

There is such a thing as 'aural dyslexia', I ACE'd someone with the condition some time ago. I forget the correct term for it.

Aural dyslexia. Hmm, yes. How do you know? How do you diagnose such a condition? Has it not something to do with dialect?
What worries me, though, is that I tend to forget how to write words. The inability to remember how to write a word is growing. Nowadays I really need a dictonary at hand. From time to time I really have to check.
And what troubles me most is that I find very ordinary words totally incomprehensible. For instance, writing a shoppinglist I jot down the word 'cheese'. I become confused and stunned. What an extraorinary strange word. The word is totally alien to me.
I'm looking at it, I know its meaning but I do not know why this particular substance is called 'cheese'. Where the hell is this word coming from? And why a c followed by and h, plus a dubble e ...etc. It feels like looking straight beyond the letters and just seeing the white spaces in between.

All the women in the local baker, come sandwitch shop appaer to suffer from *aural dyslexia* well...

Ask for nine sausages and six slices of ham, you will seldom get nine sausage, or the right amount of ham. The usual response is to ask customers again mid-way though picking the order: "How many?"

If there is some problem with linking number to object? These are the same people that calculate the bill correctly using *mental arithmetic* so they are numerate.

Could it be a lack of interest in surrounding event, attention span problem, apathy, depression for routine or literal physical problem in the brain?

Some of us type properly, with our fingers in teh right places and everything, but attempt to do so as fast as we possibly can, which, when combined with an total inability to spel and teh lack of ever using that funny little button before teh 'post' button often leads to unusual typing errors which otherwise might appear as if they are as a consequence of some kind of strange alien induced prehensile adaptation to an existance in a zero gravity low methane high hydrogen environment where the levels of certain noxious gases often leads to the entire and complete disappearance of entire. the lack of entire from those things that begin with a capital city and ends with a period of jail sentenceing, is itself not entirely dependant on the missing from the things. which isn't to say, That the sometimes entire lack of capitalisation of certain things isn't itself just another exasibating and porely spalt way of being lazi.

Gsh, wll tht xplns it thn.
Thnks, prfssr.

Jab, I think people just don't pay attention properly, or really listen to requests.

I regularly hear my husband spluttering with rage, as once again he asks for black coffee and they start to pour milk in it!

I hate that coffee thing too; being a total black coffee drinker, no sugar... you get kind of 'supprized' looks...
'Black?'
'yes, black, no sugar'
'you don't want any milk or sugar?'
'no, no milk, no sugar, just coffee and water, couldn't be simplier'.
and then they turn up with a milky coffee with three sugars

Yes, to everything 2legs said, even the bit about gravity and gases... Though I think saying "pissed" would have it covered?

Doh! My prior post... "Sandwitch." Again, knowing the right spelling does not mean it is the word typed.

So yes, a want t respond quickly can have much to do with missing or added letters. - Hmm *the keyboard* missed the "o" from "to." - Blame on inanimate object, that would qualify as lazy?

Yep a doodle doo, indeedy it dooby be, the speed and the alcochchol, and teh inability ot proofve read all adds up to 6.023 X 10 23.