I can’t seem to type my own name.
It should be ‘Becki’ but ends up being ‘Beclo’ about 95% of the time.
In my senior year of high school I wrote a fairly long paper (six or seven pages, I believe) about the use of metaphor in Heart of Darkness (which, at the time of paper-writing, I had not in fact read, but my refusal to actually read the books we read in class and uncanny ability to still maintain a decent grade is a story for another time). Anyway, for some bizarre reason my fingers decided that the paper should in fact be about “meataphors”, which I can only suppose are metaphors concerning a carnivore’s foodstuff, and possibly butchers.
To this day, it is something of a joke between my proofreading buddy and I. “I’m just not quite sure where you’re going with this meataphor in the fourth paragraph…”
My personal favorite is “theorectical” for “theoretical.”
I type “prople” instead of “people” all the time. Also, “form” instead of “from” which is weird because when I type “information” it most often comes out “infromation”
Speaking of words that end in “-ion” I usually type “-oin” instead.
Oh, and “work” for “word”
A friend once wrote “trustwrothy” instead of trustworthy. That just stuck. I mean, it took me three tries just now to actually spell the word the correct way.
I used to work on software that had a module called “Digital Assets.” It was a pretty common mistake to leave the final t out of assets. Once, it even crept into the beta interface briefly, before it was caught and corrected. We decided “Digital Asses” were what we had from never leaving the office. That’s my personal favorite.
Just last night, someone on City of Villains misspelled Gang War ( a power ) as “Wang War”, in the phrase “Wang War is fun”. “Depends on your tastes” was my response.
I used to have a book by a “Gobfrey Shrdlu” (actually Denys Parsons), which included a reprint along the lines of:
“The Parish Notes would like to correct the name of the exhibition advertised in last week’s edition, that took place in the Church Hall on Sunday. This should have read ‘Smocking and Rugs’, not ‘Smoking Drugs’. We apologise to Miss Edna Smith for the misunderstanding.”
I cannot, for the life of me, ever type “ratio” without adding a “n” on the end. Even when I think about it as I do it. Even when I type really slowly and think, as I do it, “OK, you know you have this problem, so don’t hit the - damn!” Even when I’m typing it in a thread about typos. As far as I’m concerned, the only way to type it is to type r a t i o n backspace
I have a very dismal ration of typing ratio correctly.
It’s easy enough to figure out that “teh” means the or that “Chevrolte” should be Chevrolet, but the potential confusion of not for now (and vice versa) is fraught* with peril. Consider the difference in meaning between “She is not a college graduate” and “She is now a college graduate”, for instance.
*Although it was a confusion of words as opposed to a true typo, I once wrote a paper in which I constantly typed wrought when I meant fraught. And I was in college from 1977-81, long before computers (or even word processors) had attained prominence over typewriters and correction fluid!
tot he for to the is a common one of mine.
I think peoples’ typos are distinctive enough I wouldn’t try to take on another persona online. My typos would tell the truth.
I often slip into typing phonetically. Having grown up in Appalachia, that means I often type “are” for “our.”
The campus on which I work offers a number of program in agriculture. I have learned that I always need to make sure I have typed “dairy,” not “diary.”
(This reminds me of a quip a friend made about this typo: “The Dairy of Anne Frank.” He said, "It’s like ‘Equus,’ but with cows.)
My mom had a memorable typo, which she fortunately caught before it went out. You’d think replacing “ng” with “on” at the end of a word wouldn’t be so bad – except she typed, “I’m so sorry to hear of your wife’s passion” instead of “passing.”
My own typos are too numerous to describe. I’ve got autocorrect set to pick up the majority of them, fortunately.
I was helping type up a group newsletter - the group’s national headquarters were then in New York - but that’s not how it came out on the return address: a bunch of people got the newsletter showing it as “New Your”. Sigh.
As it is, my very-appropriate current typo is to misspell the word “confusled”, er, confused. Sigh.
The best typo I’ve seen here, in my opinion is puppygod.
I like.
I once typed to my (ex) fiance that when I saw him next, I was going to give him a big kick on the lips. Oops.
I’m also fond of the commonly seen thanos, instead of “thanks”. I was a teenager when I first started using the Internet, and I would see it written in chatrooms on mIRC, and for some reason, it took me forever to figure out they were saying “thanks”, and not just calling out to some random stranger named Thanos. So seeing it now makes me giggle. And also causes me to think of some dude named Thanos, nodding in acknowledgement each time his name is typed.
And I nearly forgot: Prayer Beards.
Along similar lines to ‘abou tit’… the act of typing “Hey are you busty?” instead of “Hey are you busy?” in an online conversation is packed with comic potential. I have, to date, never actually hit enter at the end of such a comment (thankfully), but I’ve made the typo, and then corrected it, more times than I can count.
C’mon, the T is right next to the Y! My mind is pure!
I shuffle “e” out of place.
Back when I played a text-based multiplayer game, I kept typing gso instead of gos (“gossip”, general talk channel). So in the end I just made an alias: that way, when I typed gso, my client sent it to the server as gos and it worked.