Typos (or: Is it a Freudian slip?)
 

Haven't we all smiled at the strange twists letters take when we type quickly? Here's our chance to share some of those that inadvertantly give new meaning to the sentence in which we find them.
Here's one that has been posted on the homophone thread, though it is actually a typo, and what a great one!

more to come...

[ March 19, 2003: Message edited by: Estelyn Telcontar ]

Here is a recent gem from chat that Bruce MacCulloch has graciously allowed me to post:

Right, hon, that would be because the Downs Encyclopedia doesn't have entries for smut! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Lush, that's about the best one I've ever seen. [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img]

Here's what one poster calls the part of the book that is left out of Peter Jackson's movie: How appropriate! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

[ March 21, 2003: Message edited by: Estelyn Telcontar ]

Another misadventure:

Actually, Merendis, judging by the social scene at Duke, the word "rat" is rather appropriate. Also, the word "Mordor," but we won't get into that for now.

[ March 22, 2003: Message edited by: Lush ]

That would be the ruins of Tolkien's ancient ancestral home, I suppose.

well Estelyn I've got one of yours Sorry I didn't realise it was a word. [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

[ March 24, 2003: Message edited by: Silmarien ]

plural of forum, Silmarien. I believe.

Yes indeed - both 'forums' or 'fora' can be used as the plural of forum. For some reason, I prefer the latter. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

If someone has that name, it could get quite confusing.

That infernal Borrow-Wight never returns my things!

I don't know if this was a typo or just a mistake, but I found it really amusing. It's in one of the quote threads.

Hihi, those are so funny. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
I also liked Wonder how much Barrow-Weight you have to have to be one! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Ha! Those are so funny, how come everyone else notices these things?

There was one on the Chat just too good to resist:
If one of you could translate that for me, I would be ever so much in your debt. I still can't figure out what he/she/neuter was trying to say!

I think whoever they are trying to say they've got kicked out too many times. Probably for using ssssssssssssss's like that.

Ah, the granduer of incoherency.

Recently, in chat, someone made a reference to something that had happened

Hm, I really thought I was the only person who measured time in eeeks! Then again, this same person had also decided to read a book

so her understanding of time as a whole seems to have been afflicted by the evils of typoism....

--Belin Ibaimendi

Wow, Belin, that's hilarious! Maybe she's just confused by this whole typing thing and can't quite figure out where the letters are supposed to go, so the ones she's not sure of she replaces or eliminates entirely? [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

[ March 26, 2003: Message edited by: Susan Delgado ]

I think they said:

Now I want to know what they were talking about...

Then there was:

I want to feel like a measurement of time! That would be fun!

[ March 26, 2003: Message edited by: VanimaEdhel ]

I thought this was cute...it's a topic title:

Yes, well, a lot of modern English is indeed straight out of Mordor.

Kind of ironic ...

I just found this one Is Sauton something edible? [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

What a horribly painful way to die! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Here are some typos that (for some reason) are close to my heart:

• anfuniel
  annufinel
  annunfineil
  annufiniel (whatever)

And the best/worst part is? The first two were in same post and all these are by one and the same writer! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img](For more information check the "Bad Guy" Trivia... [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img])

[ March 28, 2003: Message edited by: Annunfuiniel ]

And the origin of Rachel, my name, is Heebru, I guess?

Well, now that you put it that way...

EDIT: Oh, quick note so that no one thinks that I am being disgustingly picky: these are typographical errors that the people never fix. Some of them even deny the correct spelling of the words (and, if you know us, we make sure to try to correct them [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] ).

Just wanted to make it clear that I know that everyone has a slip of the finger at times. I just like it when people admit their mistakes instead of getting offended and storming out of the Chat.

[ March 29, 2003: Message edited by: VanimaEdhel ]

Here's another A new creature emerges from M-E

This doesn't really need any elaboration... [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

this one post was so full of mistakes I didn't know where to start or finish. So here's the whole thing. someone types a little fast

And how about this one
[ April 04, 2003: Message edited by: Silmarien ]

Just found this one, but Bruce caught it before me...bah. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

I don't know! They all seem rather close to me.

Yeah, Beren, that was a funny one. I actaully posted on it. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Silmarien that was lik abslutele ilariousi mea ntotaly, wo wi used a punktuashin thing funn yIarwain

Silmarien: Wasn't that from the Language Forum? You should've seen what it took to introduce that poster to the period. It used to be all one big, run-on thought. And she still doesn't get the concept of Grey-Company Elvish versus Tolkien Elvish.

I just found this one in the Chat, Now what makes it really amusing is that she's mad because someone just called her a man. So is she attempting to say men or mean here? The world will never know...

Edit: Just found another one by the same person.
I think she just answered her own question.

[ April 07, 2003: Message edited by: Beren87 ]

Beren87:
What I find amusing is that she managed to spell "whispers" and "herself", and wrote out "to" instead of saying "2", but she goes into "u" and "r", and misspells "mean", saying "meen". You would think that she would have said, "whsprs 2 hrslf 'u guys r so meen'", or, "whispers to herself, 'you guys are so mean'". The fact that she did a combination is quite interesting.

Isn't it ironic when people spell that word wrong?

That'S the whole quote that Diamond just pointed out:


Ali G would say, "yeah, whateva!"
But then, it was the members first post and maybe he/she was just nervous [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

That's very... interesting. Why exactly does he have an army made out of food?

I just love it when that happens. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

I'm sure that hurt the person he/she/it was saying it too. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]