Just what my post says. When IA type an “ia” iat appears as an “iaa”
See what IA mean. IAt ianserts an “ia” after IA type an “ia.”
Don’t laugh. IA triaed Googliang, but the miasp[elliangs ianterfered.
So does it still happen when you use a different keyboard? Have you turned it off and on again?
Not yet… Wiall try.
Are you using a computer or a tablet? Does backspace not work, or do the "a"s reappear when you hit the next character?
I => IA by itself could be explained by a screwy autocorrect that translates the word “I” to “IA”, but that doesn’t really explain the behavior inside a word.
I suppose it could be a virus of some kind. I remember (decades ago) a virus that would duplicate a key 10 or so times on a random basis.
Postiang after rebootiang keyboard. Stiall bad.
PC. IAE. Wian 7.
Heh. IE. Win 7
Sounds very much like the keyboard has a shorted connection. Although it usually happens with letters that are closer together on the keyboard.
If you don’t have another keyboard to test with you can open the on screen keyboard: Control Panel - Ease Of Access Center - Start On Screen Keyboard. With that open you can use the mouse to ‘type’ an I. If the same problem happens it’s software, if it doesn’t, it’s the keyboard.
Spare keyboard seems like a necessity. I’m typing with a wireless keyboard right now via a laptop whose own keyboard has several buttons that no longer work.
Working with computers most of my life, the last hard disk I had that failed totally was a 2311 disk pack back in the 1970’s. I’ve had to replace at least seven keyboards!
(Admittedly, I push more keys – and push them harder 
– than most.)
Weird. I’ve never really had a keyboard go bad. There was one where I melted some of the keys after a botched cleaning effort. And another where I literally wore through the space bar–it had a hole in the plastic where I had pressed it so many zillions of times. But I’ve never had a keyboard just go bad on me of its own accord.
On the other hand, I’ve had at least a dozen hard disks fail on me…
When my boss (of about 20 years ago) updated our small office to newer computers (which all came with those stinkin new keyboards with the special Windows keys), he dumped all the old ones. I collected a bunch of those so I would always have a pile of spare keyboards without those damn Windows keys, and I still have several of those sitting in a box to this very day. Good foresight, Senegoid!
For poor samclem, though, sucks to be a vowel! 
Just a wild idea:
Windows has features where you can set the keyboard for various foreign (non-English) languages; and then some keys will allow you to insert various diacritical marks over letters, or generate some characters that aren’t used in English. Could you possibly have accidentally turned on this function on your keyboard?
(But I don’t know of one where i ==> ia is a common transformation. Still, I’m not an expert in other languages at all.)
:dubious:
Have you never heard of the backspace or delete keys?
Anyways–basic troubleshooting. Plug the keyboard into something else and see if it has the same problem, and plug in a different keyboard and see if it has a problem. Borrow what you need from someone else if necessary.
If it happens only with that keyboard and still happens when plugged into another computer, it’s the keyboard. If it happens with any keyboard, it’s a problem with your computer. Try a LiveCD of another OS or at least try booting into safemode. If the problem is still there, there’s something wrong with your computer’s hardware. Otherwise, it’s a problem with your software.
Yeah, that whole ‘cleansing fire’ thing is really meant metaphorically…
Trying new keyboard at this time.
Looks like the keyboard is the problem.
Thanks all.
I’m surprised no one came into the thread saying it’s probably malware.
If you don’t have a new keyboard handy (seems like you do), an Autohotkey script that changes an ‘i’ input to an ‘i+backspace’ would also fix your problem.
Anyways.
Aaaand it turned out to be horses and not zebras for like the millionth time in a row.
As long as your keyboard only writes ‘ia ia’, it’s probably just a hardware issue; but when it adds ‘cthulhu fhtagn’, you’d maybe want to watch out for eldritch abominations that tear at the very fabric of your sanity.
His old keyboard had a virus. His new one doesn’t (yet).
Problem solved. 