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Re: Tower situation



A long time ago, in a galaxy just over there, on 2 Dec 2003 09:36:37
-0800, a big jerkass called [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron Sanders) opened
their mouths and this happened:

>> >Why do you write "whit" *repeatedly* for "with"
>>  [..]
>> >but you don't write "wath" for "what?" Just curious, because you do it
>> >every time, so it can't be a typo =)
>> 
>> Transposition of characters is the easiest of typoes to amke, and can be
>
>LOL!
>
>> extremely consistent as well. The i and the a are on entirely different
>> bits of the keyboard, so have vastly different hand positions, and thus a
>> correspondingly different chance of a certain trnasposition happening.
>> 
>> Jasper
>
>Interesting. Still, I would be more likely to have left it alone if I
>found a single "with" spelled correctly. That's very strange, to do it
>every time, no?

If I'm going to put two keys in the wrong order, I will generally
write "wiht" instead of "with."

But I proof-read, and so does Janica, so most of the time we do okay.





C&J

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