Tournamnet

[The Camel]

When I am typing I always (and I mean always) type the "tournament" with the n and the e transposed.

I have no clue why, and it doesn't happen with other words.

Any reason for this strange repetitive mistake?

[Ironside]

no idea but i do it with "the" every single time and have to go back and change it if i remember can be bothered

[doubleup]

Its prob because the "n" and "m" are close on the keyboard and you get to the n before you have typded in the "e".

I do things like "typded" a bit, don't know wtf that is about, prob senility.

[EvilPie]

tournament
argument
compentnent
omnipotent
imporntnat

Fucking hell!!

[EvilPie]

I think because it's so easy to correct (and often autocorrects) you really don't have to worry about it. It's no longer importnat (that was not deliberate and I was thinking about it).

Because you do it so often it becomes ingrained in to your muscles or central nervous system and you just do it.

[celtic]

When I count backwards from 20, I get to 13 ok then it goes

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Unless I stop to think about it, I can't stop it.

[bobAlike]

Thnaks is the word that gets me every time.

[tikay]

When I count backwards from 20, I get to 13 ok then it goes

12
10
11
9
8

Unless I stop to think about it, I can't stop it.

Err, why exactly are you in the habit of counting backwards?

[The Camel]

Thnaks is the word that gets me every time.

Ding!

I said "tournament" was the only word which I make this mastake with, but your post reminds me that I often (but not quite as often) make the same mistake with "thanks".

Which discounts doubleup's theory!

[The Camel]

I think because it's so easy to correct (and often autocorrects) you really don't have to worry about it. It's no longer importnat (that was not deliberate and I was thinking about it).

Because you do it so often it becomes ingrained in to your muscles or central nervous system and you just do it.

I haven't got autocorrect on my ancient computer!

I'm thinking is it because when the letters we mix up are usually typed together, the way we type them is the usual order they are written in a word?

[tikay]

Thnaks is the word that gets me every time.

Ding!

I said "tournament" was the only word which I make this mastake with, but your post reminds me that I often (but not quite as often) make the same mistake with "thanks".

Which discounts doubleup's theory!

Mistake seems to be a problem, perhaps when it follows "make", too.

That's not a pedantic "fyp" smug comment by the way, it's part of the same problem.

In the spoken word, I've noticed an oddity, too - many black people seem to struggle to say the work "ask" - it comes out as "aks". Anyone know why that is?

[tikay]

I think because it's so easy to correct (and often autocorrects) you really don't have to worry about it. It's no longer importnat (that was not deliberate and I was thinking about it).

Because you do it so often it becomes ingrained in to your muscles or central nervous system and you just do it.

I haven't got autocorrect on my ancient computer!

I'm thinking is it because when the letters we mix up are usually typed together, the way we type them is the usual order they are written in a word?

Possibly - as in "make mastake".

[The Camel]

Thnaks is the word that gets me every time.

Ding!

I said "tournament" was the only word which I make this mastake with, but your post reminds me that I often (but not quite as often) make the same mistake with "thanks".

Which discounts doubleup's theory!

Mistake seems to be a problem, perhaps when it follows "make", too.

That's not a pedantic "fyp" smug comment by the way, it's part of the same problem.

In the spoken word, I've noticed an oddity, too - many black people seem to struggle to say the work "ask" - it comes out as "aks". Anyone know why that is?

Nope., I think that was just a one off typo. Can't recall ever typing that word incorrectly before.

[celtic]

When I count backwards from 20, I get to 13 ok then it goes

12
10
11
9
8

Unless I stop to think about it, I can't stop it.

Err, why exactly are you in the habit of counting backwards?

I have no idea. Was just something that someone noticed, I didn't even realise I was doing it to start with.

The ask/aks thing is a dialect variation.

[tikay]

When I count backwards from 20, I get to 13 ok then it goes

12
10
11
9
8

Unless I stop to think about it, I can't stop it.

Err, why exactly are you in the habit of counting backwards?

I have no idea. Was just something that someone noticed, I didn't even realise I was doing it to start with.

The ask/aks thing is a dialect variation.

Do you have a yearning to be the Space Shuttle countdown bloke?

Forget that, can't have that done in a Scottish accent, it needs to sound important, posh & have some gravitas.