Typing & writing..

[Barringtonia]

I'm a little miffed a thread is locked when I've noticed that, once again, I confused 'than' and 'that' in my post, which is the last post and therefore stands out thus irritating me.

I would never confuse 'than' and 'that' when writing, it's purely a function of typing - I never confuse 'they're' and 'their' when writing either but often do so typing.

Do you make different mistakes between the two, or do you ever actually write anything more than your signature anymore anyway?

[Tunizcha]

Not really. The only repeat offender I have is accidentally adding an 'e' to the end of words, like frothe. It's the same while writing.

[Maurepas]

I dont particularly care, the only things I write are Notes, my Signature(If scribbles count, lol), and generally one word answers to tests...

My handwriting's so bad it matters little anyway, if anyone other than me has to read it, I have to type it,

[Sdaeriji]

I'm a little miffed a thread is locked when I've noticed that, once again, I confused 'than' and 'that' in my post, which is the last post and therefore stands out thus irritating me.

I would never confuse 'than' and 'that' when writing, it's purely a function of typing - I never confuse 'they're' and 'their' when writing either but often do so typing.

Do you make different mistakes between the two, or do you ever actually write anything more than you signature anymore anyway?

Same thread as me, where I noticed a stray word in one of my posts after the thread was locked.

When typing, I find I stop and start sentences more frequently than if I'm putting pen to paper, so the inevitable result is that the beginning and end of some of my sentences don't make perfect sense, as my train of thought shifted along the way due to the break. I can get distracted by another discussion or a video game or a website on the computer more easily than I can get distracted when putting pen to paper.

[The Beautiful Darkness]

Yes, I do it. I think it comes from hanging around online with people who also make those mistakes. I notice it every time I do it, and I decidely know the difference between what I intended to type and what I actually typed. It's mildly annoying, but not too much of an issue unless someone calls me on it.

[Maurepas]

I'm a little miffed a thread is locked when I've noticed that, once again, I confused 'than' and 'that' in my post, which is the last post and therefore stands out thus irritating me.

I would never confuse 'than' and 'that' when writing, it's purely a function of typing - I never confuse 'they're' and 'their' when writing either but often do so typing.

Do you make different mistakes between the two, or do you ever actually write anything more than you signature anymore anyway?

Same thread as me, where I noticed a stray word in one of my posts after the thread was locked.

When typing, I find I stop and start sentences more frequently than if I'm putting pen to paper, so the inevitable result is that the beginning and end of some of my sentences don't make perfect sense, as my train of thought shifted along the way due to the break. I can get distracted by another discussion or a video game or a website on the computer more easily than I can get distracted when putting pen to paper.

Aw man, I hate that, happens to me all the time, and then I have to go back and edit the post three or four times after Ive typed it,

[Barringtonia]

Yes, I do it. I think it comes from hanging around online with people who also make those mistakes. I notice it every time I do it, and I decidely know the difference between what I intended to type and what I actually typed. It's mildly annoying, but not too much of an issue unless someone calls me on it.

For me I very much suspect a different part of the brain deals with typing than writing, it may be the case that I type much faster than I write and therefore the issues others write about - which I also go through - are a result of not particularly thinking when typing.

However, for various reasons, I come back to the thought that we type differently, more in line with how we speak, than when we write.

if you transcribe speech, it's filled with the same errors Sdaeriji points to, broken sentences, switches in focus and etc., the listener's brain can streamline those into coherence. I suspect we type closer to how we speak compared to writing, which I'd say is handled differently.

[Brutland and Norden]

Do you make different mistakes between the two, or do you ever actually write anything more than you signature anymore anyway?

I make this mistake too. It's usually the fault of the process of typing that there is no R in "your". It's awkward because it becomes just "you", which can make it... wrong.

Oh, plus the N and D mistake. In words such as under, understand, undying, the N and D becomes transposed (ie. "udner") because of the way I type. It can be annoying, really. As for sometimes mixing up "than" and "then", again it's usually typographical, I know when to use both, only that my hands disobey me.

The true grammatical pitfall of mine is the English subject-verb agreement. Gah, how I hated it since first grade. It's so... illogical. Even now I find myself editing posts when I see I made a mistake on that.

I type when I needed a backup and/or editable copy of the thing; I write otherwise, especially during lectures when my fingers couldn't catch up with the speaker, because I write faster.

[Barringtonia]

Not much research seems to have occurred on this but a modicum of research and..

It seems writing lights up slightly different pathways, writing touches upon the 'art' aspect of the brain, reaching more into the right side as opposed to the functional left side involved in typing. However, typing might be more 'creative' in that you use both hands as opposed to one meaning both sides of the brain light up to some extent.

It seems complicated according to how we write as well, possibly the easiest outline of this is here: http://manishbansal.wordpress.com/2006/ ... n-writing/

The two hands aspect seems most obvious.

[The Beautiful Darkness]

Yes, I do it. I think it comes from hanging around online with people who also make those mistakes. I notice it every time I do it, and I decidely know the difference between what I intended to type and what I actually typed. It's mildly annoying, but not too much of an issue unless someone calls me on it.

For me I very much suspect a different part of the brain deals with typing than writing, it may be the case that I type much faster than I write and therefore the issues others write about - which I also go through - are a result of not particularly thinking when typing.

However, for various reasons, I come back to the thought that we type differently, more in line with how we speak, than when we write.

if you transcribe speech, it's filled with the same errors Sdaeriji points to, broken sentences, switches in focus and etc., the listener's brain can streamline those into coherence. I suspect we type closer to how we speak compared to writing, which I'd say is handled differently.

That makes sense, certainly I have notice speed to be a factor. Perhaps it's also due, as you say, to the more conversational tone that we tend to take when typing versus hand writing.
Damnit, maybe it is that. I just tabbed out to speak with a friend on IM and typed 'free' instead of 'three'.

[Robarya]

Since I hate handwriting, I tend to do it very sloppily. When I'm typing I try my best to use proper spelling, grammar, punctuation and all that shit, even though I don't care if I make a mistake here and there once in a while. There have been a few words I have been misspelling on a regular basis, but thanks to the usage of a spellchecker that's no longer the case (well, with those words; maybe I still do typos at times).

[Ifreann]

I don't really write enough to notice these days, but it seems like something I'd do.

[Czardas]

My typing seems better than my writing. Writing by hand creates abominations such as "substract" and "clacissist", which I do not do when typing except deliberately as in this post. My handwriting also tends to be cramped and hard to read, since I try to write as fast as I type but am apparently physically unable to do so without sacrificing neatness. <.<

[Aelosia]

I suck at typing in english. While I have a record in spanish I am proud of. (Not letting one typo off in more than three years working in news reports), my english is more than just flawed. Typos in grammar figures, funny and ridiculous expressions and sentences, and wrongly used words are a commonplace for me.

That said, I almost never write in english. I almost always type.

When I do write, in my native tongue, I tend to use a slow, extremely baroque style of writing. Blame the "Palmer Method of Calligraphy" the nuns forced on me when I was young. I handwrite so slowly that is a pain. Plus, I am a lefty, so I usually end with the lateral part of my pinky finger stained with ink or with pencil. I hate handwriting.

[Muravyets]

I typically do not make the word substitution mistakes while writing, but I do make the same spelling typos in writing and typing, especially transposing letters, and I often leave words out of sentences in both writing and typing.

EDIT: And I constantly edit both. I like typing on computers better, because you can hide all your mistakes and changes of mind.

[Poliwanacraca]

I do make mistakes in typing, largely due, as far as I can tell, to muscle-memory. I will not infrequently find that I have turned one word into another halfway through - so, for example, I might set out to type "examine" and find that I have typed "example," because I use the latter more often and my fingers simply took over for my brain. It's rather annoying. Luckily, I almost always catch those immediately, but I feel like a bit of a doofus when the occasional seemingly-obvious error slips through.

[Buffett and Colbert]

I rarely make mistakes while typing. Thanks to my OCD when it comes to spelling and grammar and FireFox's spellcheck, you rarely find me making an error (hopefully). Although, yesterday someone pointed out I confused to and two. That was rather embarrassing...

[LOL ANARCHY NUBZ]

I do both to a moderate standard and no more.

[Peepelonia]

I'm a little miffed a thread is locked when I've noticed that, once again, I confused 'than' and 'that' in my post, which is the last post and therefore stands out thus irritating me.

I would never confuse 'than' and 'that' when writing, it's purely a function of typing - I never confuse 'they're' and 'their' when writing either but often do so typing.

Do you make different mistakes between the two, or do you ever actually write anything more than your signature anymore anyway?

It's a bloody strange thing. Nigh on 20 years ago when I started working with 'puters, I initialy found that using the keyboard done wonders for my dyslexcia, it really helped with the speiling. Now of course many years later I find that it now makes no differance to my spelling wether I type or write. Go figure.

[Muravyets]

I do make mistakes in typing, largely due, as far as I can tell, to muscle-memory. I will not infrequently find that I have turned one word into another halfway through - so, for example, I might set out to type "examine" and find that I have typed "example," because I use the latter more often and my fingers simply took over for my brain. It's rather annoying. Luckily, I almost always catch those immediately, but I feel like a bit of a doofus when the occasional seemingly-obvious error slips through.

Have you ever used the un-do function and discovered mistakes you didn't know you made? I did that yesterday while rewriting a paragraph, and I had to hit un-do close to 15 times, because it kept revealing typos that I had made and corrected so automatically that I hadn't even noticed doing it.

[Buffett and Colbert]

I suck at typing in english. While I have a record in spanish I am proud of. (Not letting one typo off in more than three years working in news reports), my english is more than just flawed. Typos in grammar figures, funny and ridiculous expressions and sentences, and wrongly used words are a commonplace for me.

That said, I almost never write in english. I almost always type.

When I do write, in my native tongue, I tend to use a slow, extremely baroque style of writing. Blame the "Palmer Method of Calligraphy" the nuns forced on me when I was young. I handwrite so slowly that is a pain. Plus, I am a lefty, so I usually end with the lateral part of my pinky finger stained with ink or with pencil. I hate handwriting.

Come to think of it, my typing in Spanish is probably pretty crappy too. I always mix up porque, por que, porqué and por qué as well as other things such as verb conjugation...

Pero si hablas español, puedes entenderme.

So it can't be that bad.

[Heaven Hieghts]

I make a lot of mistakes when both writing and typing. Though mainly when Im not looking when I type. As for hand writing, I have no clue what the deal is with that, I just make stupid mistakes like writing an H instead of an N... The funny thing is I like to write in pen.

[Mikertaz Kein]

I am a language Nazi, so the only option I can pick is 2.

I am well-controlled though, so I don't attack people when they are butchering the English Language. I do, on occasion, tend to twitch and convulse repeatedly, but I have yet to chastise someone on their inferior language skills.

When
'I live in London'
becomes
'lol LONdin 4 teh win, USians r dum!!1111!!one!!'

I tend to lose a little faith in human intelligence...

[H N Fiddlebottoms VIII]

I don't think as much about what I'm typing, so the quality tends to slip. Typing is easier, so I tend to just go along with the words as they come up in my head, whereas with writing I actually stop to think a couple words ahead and make sure that my grammar and spelling are all correct.
There's also the safety net of editing when I type, which makes me feel more comfortable about just going along with things. I normally write with a pen, so if something goes down wrong there is no going back.

[Mad hatters in jeans]

I do write just not very often, and it's a small story at the moment, i usually word process it on the PC for spelling and grammar errors, as it's easier to fix with a pc, but i like writing itself because it's more liberating i suppose and it's easier to travel between ideas, as i can make little pictures and so on with ease.

So PC efficient, writing fun there it is.

Oh yeah i make those mistakes all the time when typing and writing, i only get concerned if it's going into an essay or similar.