Ray Evans Harrell wrote:
[snip]
I sometimes make the an/and
and the mistake of adding the extra (d) and the their/there mistake you
mention. But it is those big misses like:
Somehow these seem different from the kind of mistakes Bush makes.
A person's typos are sort of like analytic free associations....
Wittgenstein said something relevant [by analogy] here:
A person copying text of a language they know, and a person
copying text of a language they do not know, make different
kinds of transcription errors.
generousity -- At least this one emphasizes the important
part: being *generous*
judgement -- what the judge ment
Tschaikovski -- Is it Tsar or Tzar or Czar anyway?
comparible
interviening -- Did you take latin? Veni vidi vieni?
impressario -- they are kind of bossy, aren't they?
artistocracy -- there *is* some truth to this one: as McLuhan
said: The artists are the antennae of the race
inhabition -- we are stuck with and in our habits
paar -- Jack?
provencial -- Provence is a nice province if one has to pick one
all from the post below that the OEx spellcheck liked.
[snip]
I love spell checkers. They catch typos for me. But they also
give me the chance to look twice and say to myself: "Yes indeed,
that is exactly what I meant." -- or sometimes, and this is where
I feel I am maturing as I age: "Wow! I would never have thought
of that neat typo! [Remember James Joyce?] That's a keeper!"
Chears!
\brad mccormci
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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