<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 18 April 2007 - Volume 04</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_sandy@scotstext.org" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Sandy Fleming</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg">
<<a href="mailto:sandy@scotstext.org">sandy@scotstext.org</a>></span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Orthography"
2007.04.17 (10) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> From: Global Moose Translations <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:globalmoose@t-online.de">
globalmoose@t-online.de</a>><br>> Subject: LL-L "Orthography" 2007.04.17 (08) [E]<br>><br>> Heather wrote:<br>> >" there are 30 copies listed for sail "<br>> >I cannot believe I wrote that!
<br>><br>> >Has anyone on this forum noticed themselves<br>> >automatically typing one homonym for another?<br>><br>> Oh yes, this happens to me all the time. Glad I'm not the only one!<br>> Often I have to go through what I typed and correct all the instances
<br>> where I wrote "to" instead of "two" or "too", for example, although I<br>> know exactly how it should be spelled in each instance. This never<br>> happens when I write by hand!
<br>><br>> Gabriele Kahn<br><br>> From: Luc Hellinckx <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a>><br>> Subject: LL-L "Orthography"
<br>><br>> Dear Heather,<br>><br>> You wrote:<br>><br>> > " there are 30 copies listed for sail "<br>> ><br>> > I cannot believe I wrote that!<br>><br>> First stage: when I write something down on a piece of paper, my head
<br>> is slightly tilted forward, same position as when I'm reading a book.<br>> I find this to be the best position for concentration, it allows me to<br>> focus well.<br><br>> From: R. F. Hahn <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">
sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>> Subject: Orthography<br>><br>> What we're talking about here is a matter of concentration or the lack<br>> thereof.<br>><br>> But then there are such errors that occur because the writers don't
<br>> know any better. And, worse yet, these become perpetuated.<br><br>Most unusually, I feel I must contradict you all :)<br><br>I don't think the typist-homonym phenomenon is about concentration. I<br>think it's about the fact that when you write by hand, you can feel the
<br>shapes of the words as you write them and to write "to" when you're<br>thinking "too" (fpr example) would feel quite wrong.<br><br>But in typing "too" and "to" there's much less of a tactile difference
<br>so you're much more likely to type the wrong "nym" and also commit lots<br>of random non-homonymic errors, without realising.<br><br>I actually make lots of typos of all sorts when I'm typing, which I
<br>usually spot when I read over what I wrote (eg before sending an email).<br>But in handwriting, once is enough.<br><br>I never use a spellchecker, as you might have guessed. I always have it<br>turned off.<br></div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="sg">
<br>Sandy Fleming<br>http:/scotstext.org/<br><br>----------<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <</span><a style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">
sassisch@yahoo.com</a><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: Orthography</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Sandy,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
You may be on to something there. (Or is that "onto"? I'm tired and under the weather, too lazy to check ...)</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
However, and this may or may not be germaine in this context, I do feel that I have something like "manual/tactile imaging" even while typing. Most of the time when I actually mistype a word I don't need to see it, my hands "know" that something went wrong, and
</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">then </span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I look, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">et voilĂ </span>
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> ... I tend to be especially aware of metatheses fro smoe resaon.</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
When I write by hand I write more slowly and am usually more aware of errors ~ mistakes happening or likely to happen. (Hi, Heather dearest!) But I have misspelled by hand in the manner of "two" vs "two" also. I further noticed that these things happen more early in the morning and late at night, or whenever I don't feel on top of my game (like right now). (No smart responses to this now, folks!) I suppose that this led me to assume that it's a matter of degree of alertness.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Could it be a combination of the two?</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Could </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">your </span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
sense of shape in combination with language be above-average or more integrated because signing is second nature for you, Sandy? </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Sumth'n' to ponder pr'aps ...</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Reinhard/Ron<br><br>P.S.: And what <span style="font-style: italic;">does</span> our Luc do when he lies down?</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">