Geozjt Wasjomgtpm

[njtt]

Until recently I lived on a street called Washington Boulevard. Once, some months ago when trying to give my address over the phone to some clerk I had to repeat the word "Washington" several times before they got it (they did not seem to have any trouble understanding anything else I said). Just now I receive a renewal form for my driver's licence, addressed to me at Wasjomgtpm Blvd (it is on the form twice).

I am in the United States of America (I think).

[kambuckta]

Originally Posted by njtt

Until recently I lived on a street called Washington Boulevard. Once, some months ago when trying to give my address over the phone to some clerk I had to repeat the word "Washington" several times before they got it (they did not seem to have any trouble understanding anything else I said). Just now I receive a renewal form for my driver's licence, addressed to me at Wasjomgtpm Blvd (it is on the form twice).

I am in the United States of America (I think).

You're in the US, but the call-centre clerk was probably somewhere in downtown Delhi or Bangalore.

Hence the spellink problems.

[Green Bean]

Perhaps their right hand was shifted one key over on the keyboard and they neglected to look at the screen.

[clayton_e]

Originally Posted by Green Bean

Perhaps their right hand was shifted one key over on the keyboard and they neglected to look at the screen.

By chance I discovered that google corrects this for many words when I type something too fast to read and quickly hit enter. I was shocked.

[Lynn Bodoni]

Originally Posted by Green Bean

Perhaps their right hand was shifted one key over on the keyboard and they neglected to look at the screen.

I think this is quite likely. I just checked it out, and it fits.

[Sunspace]

And here I thought they might have been from Croatia or Georgia (the other one, the one that doesn't have a lot of vowels).

[Maus Magill]

Originally Posted by Green Bean

Perhaps their right hand was shifted one key over on the keyboard and they neglected to look at the screen.

Originally Posted by clayton_e

By chance I discovered that google corrects this for many words when I type something too fast to read and quickly hit enter. I was shocked.

Originally Posted by Lynn Bodoni

I think this is quite likely. I just checked it out, and it fits.

I looked at the spelling, and I knew what happened. Feeling clever, I thought I'd share. Now, it looks like I'll have to hunt down Green Bean, clayton_e, and Lynn Bodoni for showing me up.

[Mtgman]

There are several classes of typographical errors(as opposed to spelling errors). The most common are Fat Finger(hitting more than one key), Missed Key(or where you don't press hard enough), Right Finger - Wrong Hand(f instead of j, d instead of k, etc.), and Right Finger - Wrong Key(where the hands slip off the home row positions). An amusing book about this type of thing, if you're amused by this type of thing, is The Untied Stats on American

The Untied Stats on American: And Other Computer Assisted Writing Errors takes playful yet serious swipes at some of the misleading, erroneous, and just plain hilarious things that get past careless proofreaders and their trusty spelling checkers. Author William Carroll illustrates what can happen to the written word when oblivious proofreaders allow their computers to do their proofreading and editing. Caress drivers, or maybe even carless ones, who believe sex education should be taught in pubic schools, even those with Cadillacs on their eyes and symptoms of old-timers disease can learn something of value from Carrolls The Untied Stats on American. Nonetheless, they should all be careful not to wine up laughing theyre assets off wile their during it.

Enojy,
Steven

[Ethilrist]

Originally Posted by Sunspace

And here I thought they might have been from Croatia or Georgia (the other one, the one that doesn't have a lot of vowels).

... they both have four...

[Borborygmi]

Originally Posted by njtt

Until recently I lived on a street called Washington Boulevard [snip]

I shudder to think how, they might have spelled your name, njtt. I hope it didn't end up looking like a bunch of random letters.

(You're very, very MPSIMS OP cracked me up, BTW.)

[Kythereia]

Geozjt Wasjomgtpm, the 81st president of the United States, was the first to legalize the use of squid to parking officers after the great Goat-Squid debate of 3045...

[Brown Eyed Girl]

Originally Posted by Mtgman

There are several classes of typographical errors(as opposed to spelling errors). The most common are Fat Finger(hitting more than one key), Missed Key(or where you don't press hard enough), Right Finger - Wrong Hand(f instead of j, d instead of k, etc.), and Right Finger - Wrong Key(where the hands slip off the home row positions). An amusing book about this type of thing, if you're amused by this type of thing, is The Untied Stats on AmericanEnojy,
Steven

I have mistyped public so many times that I added it to AutoCorrect. Now, every instance of pubic automagically becomes public. Whew!

[Brown Eyed Girl]

Originally Posted by Mtgman

Enojy,
Steven

BTW, was that on purpose? Tongue in cheek, perhaps?

[Wile E]

Originally Posted by Brown Eyed Girl

I have mistyped public so many times that I added it to AutoCorrect. Now, every instance of pubic automagically becomes public. Whew!

So your special area down there is a public area?

[tdn]

Originally Posted by Brown Eyed Girl

I have mistyped public so many times that I added it to AutoCorrect. Now, every instance of pubic automagically becomes public. Whew!

Silly rabbit. You display your public hair to the world all the time.

[Brown Eyed Girl]

Honestly. I'm not a health and wellness writer.

Just how many times, in the course of your work and leisure, do you find the need to type "pubic"? Outside of this thread, of course.

[Wile E]

Originally Posted by Brown Eyed Girl

Honestly. I'm not a health and wellness writer.

Just how many times, in the course of your work and leisure, do you find the need to type "pubic"? Outside of this thread, of course.

Actually it might come up in just about any thread here on the Dope.

[tdn]

Originally Posted by Wile E

Actually it might come up in just about any thread here on the Dope.

Totally. In my work, not often. In my leisure? Often, and usually accompanied by "hot", "throbbing", and "Mother Superior."