* Stephen Hansen, on 11.07.2010 09:19:
On 7/10/10 11:50 PM, rantingrick wrote:
It was a typo not an on purpose misspelling
If this had been the first time, perhaps. If you had not in *numerous*
previous times spelled my name correctly, perhaps. If it were at all
possible for "f" to be a typo of "ph", perhaps.
It is a natural mistake to make in some languages. E.g. in Norwegian the Devil
can be spelled Faen or Fanden (modern) or Phanden (old-fashioned, no longer in
dictionaries but still used to sort of tone down the expression). It's even
there in English, like "file" and "philosophy". So it's an error committed not
by the limbic system but by a slightly higher level sound-to-text translator
brain circuit. The text is generated from how the word sounds in one's head.
Cheers & hth.,
- Alf
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