Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) wrote: > On 11/3/18 5:46 AM, paolo m. wrote: >> I am not able to 'learn' how not to make typos. Do you? > > I learn not to make _specific_ typographical errors, and the facility > that you request would only deal with sets of specific errors.
Yes, a set of specific words to be fixed by rearranging letters. E.g. writing quickly it often happens to write 'informazioen' rather than ' informazione'. Sometimes that word appears correctly on the screen, sometimes it is distorted like that, as an anagram of the right word. Is that mistake a matter of 'learning'? You mean that i should gain a better motor control of my fingers' movements? My guess is that my mind form the mispelled word, while quickly writing, because 'informazioen' and ' informazione' are the same, in my mind. There would be much to say about the meaning of 'learning', but this is not the right place to discuss about that. I do not know which aspects of learning would be involved here, but i am puzzled about how to improve my writing by learning. Anyway, that kind of mispelling happens often. Should i spend years to learn, hoping ti improve my typewriting ability? Rather, it would be very convenient to see that kind of mistakes instantly corrected. Don't you agree? paolo m. >> Is is not a matter of learning, > > Of course it is. > >> it is our mind functioning that swaps letter >> positions or doubles next letters while quickly writing text lines > > Typing isn't an inborn skill; it is something that one learns. > Learning to type a word and learning not to mistype it are the same > thing. > >> Restoring the correct letters order for each word quickly would be a >> great favour to a number of long paper writers. > > In the case of a long paper, as opposed to a set of papers, the > facility that you request doesn't offer much that global > find-and-replace doesn't already do. In either case, you are talking > about working from an assembled list of corrections. (Recall that your > original request involved a list assembled by the user of corrections > to make.)
