[LMB] OT: hearing spelling

[B. Ross Ashley]

On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:44:49 -0400, Katrina Knight <kknight at fastmail.fm> 
wrote:
 > At 10:24 AM 7/3/2007 Tzivia Adler wrote:
 > >a quesiton for all of you who write/type a lot. do you write
 > >words as you hear them?  i don't mean typos, but your brain
 > >telling your fingers that this is what the word 'sounds' like.

 > I don't do quite what you describe, but I do sometimes type
 > other words that sound similar to the ones I intended to type.
 > They're always actual words though, not phonetic versions of the
 > right words.  Generally the "wrong" words are common words that
 > I type a lot. I can't think of any particular words that I
 > consistently do it to though. I don't think I ever do this when
 > writing as opposed to typing.

I just get the common errors - droped consonants, especially when it's 
one of a pair, and reversed letters in words I type really fast ... my 
raw copy has a lot of "teh" and "nad" in it.

I'm pretty sure it's common, I've seen teh on a t-shirt.
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