Friday, July 04, 2008

Spelling it worng

I have just finished writing a review of Charles Stross's Saturn's Children, which is a deliberate tribute to the works of Robert A. Heinlein, which means typing "Heinlien" quite a lot. And I can't do it. My fingers have taken an active dislike to his name. These were the fingers that had to turn the pages of Hienlein's Number of the Beast, so they may have a point. Except that I'm not that good on "Storss" either.

Nor am I great (from a random sample of memory) on:
  • abd
  • abotu
  • adn
  • anbd
  • applicatoin
  • becuase
  • commerical
  • copmany
  • hopsital
  • huis
  • pout (as in down)
  • whioch
My handwriting, which was never great to start with, went completely to pot when I took up typing. Now my typing is going the same way. Please will someone invent some decent voice-, or even better thought-recongition sofwtare.

5 comments:

  1. "So this is my first post using thought recognition software. I have this itch on my butt. What am I having for lunch? Hmm itchy butt itchy butt. I've decided to write a review of oh no it's raining outside, I forgot to take the washing in, itchy butt itchy butt."

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  2. That's what beta testers are for.

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  3. Voice recognition is very difficult to get working properly. Regarding typing if you have the time I suggest learning the dvorak keyboard layout - I personally find it much more usable once you unlearn qwerty.

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  4. one of my worst words atm is jospeh (as you can see) which is hopeless when writing sunday school material!

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  5. In my previous career I wasted at least half of every day typing sapce.

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