# Nightshadea, learn to type! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 22, 2016, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightshadea-learn-to-type/766567 "2016-09-22T08:12:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightshadea-learn-to-type/766567/21 "2016-09-22T15:16:00Z")
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**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightshadea-learn-to-type/766567/22 "2016-09-22T15:43:45Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I’m not the one using speech-to-text software, so I don’t need to upgrade my phone, thank you very much. Just trying to point out the inaccuracy of using voice to text as an excuse in 2016. I didn’t mean to insult your phone, sorry if it looked that way. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightshadea-learn-to-type/766567/23 "2016-09-22T16:12:52Z")
I have a steno pool of chimps type all my posts. ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightshadea-learn-to-type/766567/24 "2016-09-22T16:21:00Z")
Maybe we can arrange for **iLemming** to proofread/edit **Nightshadea’s** posts! ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightshadea-learn-to-type/766567/25 "2016-09-22T17:47:07Z")
oh wow after all these years … I do try to use spell check and such but I have a disability that makes typing difficult and it makes trying to express my self even harder so yeah I do have the occasional post where even I don’t know what I was trying to say when I look at it an half hour later even though I did when I typed it now for punctuation I admit that’s just me being lazy and the fact that in school they were glad I could print at all so I never got used to using it (the state of ca says I cant legally write ) funny tho in a long deleted thread I was in an argument I kept trying to make a point and I just could and opal not only knew I was trying to say she knew why I was having trouble and sent a nice encouraging note I posted a thread explaining it but that was years ago… ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightshadea-learn-to-type/766567/26 "2016-09-22T18:02:47Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > She lost me at “would of” for “would have”… This is what I came in to say. The following quote from them is indicative of someone with a grade 5 or 6 writing ability: > [@](#): > > If I knew what it would lead to id of never done it Not a phone excuse, not a speech-to-text excuse. This is someone with limited literacy skills. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightshadea-learn-to-type/766567/27 "2016-09-22T18:18:09Z")
Yeah, let’s pick on the disabled kid. Slow pit day, eh? ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightshadea-learn-to-type/766567/28 "2016-09-22T18:38:20Z")
lol wish I was a kid heh the things id love to change or redo …I feel old being forty heh ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightshadea-learn-to-type/766567/29 "2016-09-22T18:41:46Z")
> [@naita](#): > > Aww, crap! Given the subject matter of the OP’s ire, myriad sacrifices on the altar of the Gaudess are to be expected… ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightshadea-learn-to-type/766567/30 "2016-09-22T19:25:22Z")
I vote Pit fail. I am willing to make allowances for **nightshadea**. The rest of you are just lazy. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2016, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightshadea-learn-to-type/766567/31 "2016-09-23T02:02:35Z")
> [@naita](#): > > If you want to maintain integrity of your similes, maybe you should. That’s “smilies”… ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2016, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightshadea-learn-to-type/766567/32 "2016-09-23T03:26:21Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > oh wow after all these years … I do try to use spell check and such but I have a disability that makes typing difficult and it makes trying to express my self even harder What disability is that? > [@QuickSilver](#): > > Yeah, let’s pick on the disabled kid. Slow pit day, eh? I get to pick on em tho, right? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2016, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightshadea-learn-to-type/766567/33 "2016-09-23T03:48:18Z")
Heh. Pick away, **Ambi**. I must say, curiosity is all up in the air around here, now. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2016, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightshadea-learn-to-type/766567/34 "2016-09-23T04:15:43Z")
**nightshadea** , welcome back to the Dope. I know you were away for a long time. I don’t find your posts too hard to read. I saw the Pit thread, but didn’t feel like joining in on the smackdown. I am willing to make allowances, also. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2016, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightshadea-learn-to-type/766567/35 "2016-09-23T05:02:31Z")
Is it somehow out of line to ask them about their disability? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2016, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightshadea-learn-to-type/766567/36 "2016-09-23T05:14:10Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Is it somehow out of line to ask them about their disability? 😕 Nah. Only if you think you’re entitled to an answer. ---
**Author:** ![russian\_heel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f05b48/32.png) [@russian\_heel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/russian_heel)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2016, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightshadea-learn-to-type/766567/37 "2016-09-23T06:47:32Z")
_ **Nightshadea** all your posts are riddled with mistakes._ **EVERY single one? Also, “riddled” is either a noun or an adverb, here it is used as an adjective, which I’m not sure is possible.** \* I won’t link to individual ones, as anybody can do a view posts by nightshadea, pick a post at random, and I guarantee there will be at least 5 mistakes.\* **"as anybody can do a view posts" more correctly written as " . . . .as any poster can visit on nightshadea’s profile and click on the ‘View Posts’ hyperlink . . . ."** _ **Nightshadea** , you are the worst by far. Almost everyone makes typos but you take the piss. Sort it out._ \*\*From a slang standpoint, aren’t you the one who “takes the piss” out of Nightdshadea? Lesson learned: if you play Grammar or Spelling Nazi, odds are your posts have errors in them as well.\*\* ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2016, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightshadea-learn-to-type/766567/38 "2016-09-23T06:56:38Z")
> [@russian\_heel](#): > > _ **Nightshadea** all your posts are riddled with mistakes._ > > **EVERY single one? Also, “riddled” is either a noun or an adverb, here it is used as an adjective, which I’m not sure is possible.** It’s possible. > [@](#): > > riddled (ˈrɪdəld) > adj > > 1. pierced or perforated by numerous examples of something > 2. to be full of or pervaded by something undesirable > 3. to be damaged or impaired by something > **[riddled](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/riddled)** > > Definition, Synonyms, Translations of riddled by The Free Dictionary ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Shine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr_shine/32/464_2.png) [@Mr\_Shine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Shine)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2016, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightshadea-learn-to-type/766567/39 "2016-09-23T07:11:10Z")
> [@russian\_heel](#): > > _ **Nightshadea** all your posts are riddled with mistakes._ > > **EVERY single one? Also, “riddled” is either a noun or an adverb, here it is used as an adjective, which I’m not sure is possible.** > \* > I won’t link to individual ones, as anybody can do a view posts by nightshadea, pick a post at random, and I guarantee there will be at least 5 mistakes.\* > > **“as anybody can do a view posts” more correctly written as " . . . .as any poster can visit on nightshadea’s profile and click on the ‘View Posts’ hyperlink . . . ."** > > _ **Nightshadea** , you are the worst by far. Almost everyone makes typos but you take the piss. Sort it out._ > > \*\*From a slang standpoint, aren’t you the one who “takes the piss” out of Nightdshadea? > > Lesson learned: if you play Grammar or Spelling Nazi, odds are your posts have errors in them as well.\*\* I never claimed to be perfect, and I make my fair share of typos and mistakes. In this case though I don’t think I made any. Doing a “view posts by nightshadea” is informal usage but not really wrong. All your other points are ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2016, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightshadea-learn-to-type/766567/40 "2016-09-23T07:57:11Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Is it somehow out of line to ask them about their disability? 😕 FTR: There are disabilities out there that make it difficult to type. I suffer from an essential tremor\* that causes my hands to shake. I went from being able to type 50+ words a minute as a teenager to doing a two figured chicken peck as an adult. Sucks. ☹ \*My ET is significantly worse than most people who suffer from this condition. In fact, it’s so much worse, I feel like it deserves it’s own classification rather than to be lumped in with the ET crowd. Maybe doctors would take my condition more seriously if that were true. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightshadea-learn-to-type/766567.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightshadea-learn-to-type/766567.md?page=3)