[LMB] OT: hearing spelling

[Mark Allums]

Katrina Knight 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 write words precisely, but when typing, I often type a word twice or 
type a word I was thinking about in my internal dialogue rather than 
what I was intending to type.  I have often said lately (sometimes on 
this list) that my brain is not working any more, presumably due to 
diabetes and some medication I take.  Or a rather early Alzheimer's.  I 
have upon a rare occasion typed a "phonetic" spelling instead of the 
correct spelling, but not very often.  More likely is a homonym or 
homophone, occasionally a heteronym.  I mistype the their/there mistake 
all the time.

--Mark Allums