typing error

[BroomJockey]

Not in general, but one specific error I keep making. For some reason, on a consistent basis, I will switch 'd' and 'k', typing make instead of made, think instead of thing, and vice versa. I'll do it a couple of times a day, easy. And it's annoying as all hell, with absolutely no reason for it. They're typed with completely different hands! ARGH!

[MaggieTheCat]

I generally don't mix up letters too much (although, I have been chatting with someone before and will be trying to type something like, "just a sec" and the "c" gets replaced with the "x"...that's always amusing.) There are a couple of words that I tend to mis-spell a lot, though.

restaraunt
appartment
pressence
refridgerator (I think because it's commonly abbreviated as "fridge" which has the "d" in it)
sandwhich
judgement (again, "judge" is spelled with the "e" at the end...)

Weird, huh? I'm glad Firefox has spell-checker built into it, it's saved me a bunch of times with those and others.

[Stormraven]

Judgement is correct, as is Judgment. I know, it was an issue in a spelling bee I entered. I spelled it the first way, and the dictionary backed me up.

[powerboy]

Honestly, it really does not bother me if there is one or two spelling errors. Hey no one is perfect

[BroomJockey]

Honestly, it really does not bother me if there is one or two spelling errors. Hey no one is perfect

Gee, thanks. But see, I'm an editor, and I do a lot of typing during my day, so to have this odd continual switching of 'd' and 'k' kinda makes work awkward. Typos don't really fly in that case.

[Pedersen]

Really, it depends on the medium. In something like a forum, I expect typos to creep in here and there, and am quite forgiving. There's a few people whom I won't read their posts (as in: "Oh, I see this person said something. Next!" The only reason that person is not on my ignore list is on the off chance that they might say something I want or need to see.

In a professional medium, such as a published book, I expect far fewer typos. Seeing only one of them per page in a book would dramatically reduce my opinion of the staff that produced the book.

All of which is a long winded way of saying "That sucks, Broom. I wish I had a solution that would help you get the keys straight all the time."

[powerboy]

Gee, thanks. But see, I'm an editor, and I do a lot of typing during my day, so to have this odd continual switching of 'd' and 'k' kinda makes work awkward. Typos don't really fly in that case.

Well yeah, in a professional setting, then it is different. Have you thought about switching the "d" and the "k" on the keypad?

[BroomJockey]

Well, oddly, it wouldn't help that much. It's not an "always" thing. And how often it happens waxes and wanes. Some days, yeah, it'd make for fewer errors. Unfortunately, no way to tell what day until it's mostly over. =\

I'm hereby coining a new term. "d-k aphasia." It's where the mind reaches for a word with one of those two letters, and finds the word with the other letter instead. I'll pioneer a whole new field of study, I will. I'll be famous.