{"id":169,"date":"2004-02-03T21:35:03","date_gmt":"2004-02-04T01:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2004\/02\/03\/whole-word-typoes\/"},"modified":"2004-02-03T21:35:03","modified_gmt":"2004-02-04T01:35:03","slug":"whole-word-typoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2004\/02\/03\/whole-word-typoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Whole-Word Typoes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Over the past couple years, I’ve gotten so I can type reasonably fast.<\/p>\n

I think the speed allows me to make a kind of typing error I hadn’t made before, where I mistype not merely by misplacing letters, but by typing an entire valid word which isn’t the word I was thinking.<\/p>\n

For instance, I often type “shit” when I’m thinking “this” or even “which”. It’s a bit surprising that it doesn’t go the other way, really — I say “shit” a lot but I’m sure I say “this” more? “Shit” feels somehow easier for my fingers to get out. Could it be because it starts on a “home key”?<\/p>\n

I think I’ll collect them for a while! [2\/3\/04]<\/p>\n

“thought” for “though” [2\/4\/04]
\n“this” for “shit” [2\/13\/04]
\n“would” for “sounds” [2\/25\/04]
\n“this” for “shit” [3\/1\/04]
\n“fart” for “raft” [3\/1\/04]
\n“subjective” for “subjunctive” [3\/1\/04]
\n“points” for “pounds” [3\/2\/04]
\n“this” for “shit” [3\/4\/04]
\n“was” for “saw” [3\/10\/04]
\n“oat” for “our” [3\/15\/04]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the past couple years, I’ve gotten so I can type reasonably fast. I think the speed allows me to make a kind of typing error I hadn’t made before, where I mistype not merely by misplacing letters, but by typing an entire valid word which isn’t the word I was thinking. For instance, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}