# "Typing aphasia"?  -- Is that what this is called?

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**Created:** [June 11, 2020, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/typing-aphasia-is-that-what-this-is-called/855437 "2020-06-11T08:58:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 14, 2020, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/typing-aphasia-is-that-what-this-is-called/855437/16 "2020-06-14T15:06:16Z")

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I’ve noticed three other Dopers make similar substitutions just in the past day and a half, e.g.

> [@A catastrophic flaw in the Banking system that must be rectified](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-catastrophic-flaw-in-the-banking-system-that-must-be-rectified/855282/84):
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> … If I’m understanding your ascertain, and I’m not confident that I am, …

Is ‘ascertain’ supposed to be ‘assertion’? Is there any way spelling auto-complete could have done this? (Note that the two words have the same number of letters and similar letters, though they don’t rhyme.) Yesterday a Doper wrote ‘meant’ when ‘mention’ was intended. These substitutions seem to be common — has nobody commented on them before?

I wrote ‘called’ when I meant ‘killed’ today, but caught it on Preview.

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