On 7-6-2013 19:26, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Jun 2013 07:57:39 +0100, scott wrote:
>
>>>> Some people write "your" when they really mean "you're". This mistake
>>>> is kind of understandable.
>>>
>>> Not really.  If you know that "you're" is a contraction of "you are",
>>> it's very easy to see when it's being misused:
>>
>> For me at least when I'm typing quickly I sometimes type words that
>> sound the same or similar to what I'm meant to be typing. Mostly I catch
>> these during a quick re-read but sometimes they slip through. As well as
>> the obvious homophones I've put "to" instead of "do", "works" instead of
>> "words" and things like that. It's not that I don't know the correct
>> word, just that I typed it wrong. (LOL even then I had to correct "no"
>> to "not" before hitting send...)
>
> For me, fast typing tends to cause what I've started calling "typelexia"
> - I transpose letters because of my typing speed

I do that too, and I gave originally the same reason. Until I started to 
do the same thing on the white board while teaching.




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