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The transformation of photojournalism
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:00:54 -0500, Catch Up wrote:
: On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:10:19 +0100, Bruce wrote: : : On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:45:19 -0500, Catch Up : wrote: : I'm never embarrassed by my typos. That's for people who are insecure. At : 130wpm a few are bound to creep in : : : It wasn't a typo. : : Through ignorance, you used the wrong word. : : No, moron. I also play bass-guitar and 12-string guitar (as well as five : other instruments fluently). I'm perfectly capable of knowing that "bass" : refers to the musical instrument homophone of "base". Something that you : don't realize, because you do not type at 130wpm, is that the muscle-memory : in my arms and hands will try to preselect what word my mind is trying to : send to them so they can get on with the rest of the sentence that's : needing to be typed. I will usually always spell a word correctly, but at : those typing speeds the typo usually comes out as a wrong word spelled : correctly, sometimes even in the wrong position in a sentence. Just as a : simpler typist might transpose two letters in a word, instead I might : transpose two whole words. Examples: I might want to type, "The rain in : Spain falls mainly on the plain." But it might come out as, "The reign in : Spain falls mainly on the plane." Or it might even come out even worse as, : "The rain in fall Pains manually on the plain," for an example that would : display all three categories of 130wpm typos. I suspect the rare times that : that third example of disastrous sentence has happened is when I am typing : well beyond 130wpm. My hands know the right spellings of words but they are : typing too fast to wait to see if there's a correction-check coming or not. : I will through (I just typed "through" but meant to type "throw") my text : through a spell-checker just once. If lucky, it mind (there I meant to type : "might" instead of "mind") find one wrongly spelled word, but it fails to : find all the words that my hands decided to use for me but still spelled : correctly. It can be most infuriating at times, as well as when trying to : explain this to a remedial hunt & peck typist who is only concerned with : spelling the right word. 130+wpm is challenging the very limits of human : nervous system response times. It is fraught with its own new discrepancies : when you type that fast. When you can type almost as fast as you think come : back and tell me how you got around this nervous-system speed-barrier. : : But then again, your kind can probably only think of words even slower than : you type them. : : Now go find something else to troll about to fulfill your desperate need : for attention. This is getting sillier as time passes. You're not just a jackass; you're also a buffoon. Are you studying to take over for D-Mac when he retires from Usenet? Bob |
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The transformation of photojournalism
"Catch Up" wrote in message
... On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:10:19 +0100, Bruce wrote: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:45:19 -0500, Catch Up wrote: I'm never embarrassed by my typos. That's for people who are insecure. At 130wpm a few are bound to creep in It wasn't a typo. Through ignorance, you used the wrong word. No, moron. I also play bass-guitar and 12-string guitar (as well as five other instruments fluently). Like anything you say is credible. I'll bet you have neither guitar nor a camera. -- www.mattclara.com |
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