Keyboard Fripperies

[tealin]

Some things I have learned about the configuration of keys on a Qwerty keyboard:

If your aim is off by one letter, you can change the tense of a verb. E.g: smokes becomes smoked. There was a more humourous example of this, which I discovered one day while talking to a colleague, but I've forgotten it. Curses.

If you set out to write Buddhist and miss the B, you can get Nuddhist.

Do you have any amusing keyboard accidents to report?

Comments

[morbid-bunny.livejournal.com]

A few, as it were. My best friend and I have a running joke with the word 'sez' in place of 'says'. Of course, the z is uncannily close to the x...

Also, once, I was away from home and talking to my mother via instant messenger. I was writing out hitched, but mistyped and wrote bitched insteand. (( full sentence went something like 'Skyler ran around all afternoon pretending she had been, in her words, bitched'.))

My head literally hit the desk at that one...

[deadvole.livejournal.com]

Jump becomes hump all too easily.

[gypsyjr.livejournal.com]

And let us not forget the various interesting ways to mistype 'duck.'


>.>

[alaskanshortone.livejournal.com]

"Dock" is a far worse word, as the "C" key is very close to "D", and "I" is close to the "O".

[canisdoofus.livejournal.com]

Haven't you ever been to a Nuddhist beach??? XP

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it's very peaceful...

[hobbitonic.livejournal.com]

- robbin! says:
I might be going to the marker with my mom.

I know I've always wanted to visit the marker.

[crypticidentity.livejournal.com]

Friends of mine have tried to say "sec" (like "Wait for a sec") and pressed the key one to the left by accident. You can imagine my surprise when a friend tells me to "Wait for a sex."

[zeshen.livejournal.com]

if you misspell sh"eye"t you can get shot or shut.

i was telling a female friend after she moved that "you're not very far" but insted I said "you're not very fat."

[my-fox-rocks.livejournal.com]

My welsh friend Morganna, who was staying with me along with a few other people from my website (an American and a guy from Leeds) for an EH Meet, went to type 'hello' on my computer last week and wrote Hekki. This turned into a running joke for the rest of the week which amused us all greatly, ah the joy of typos.

[linda-lupos.livejournal.com]

I tried to type "aww" once but was a bit to the right, so ended up with "see" instead. Never realised it, but that combination of keys is indeed right next to one another!
And of course the "wait a sex" one...

[sophia007.livejournal.com]

Eh, not too many for me. Im on a French keyboard...Horrible

[harleythegreat.livejournal.com]

"shall I 'shave' you?"
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I type too fast

and of course, who doesn't know the 'wait a sex' problem...

[bluesrules.livejournal.com]

I was doing some coursework at school and was typing the word 'accommodation'. As a harry potter fan i was chuffed when it turned out as acciomodation...

[dragons-wyrd.livejournal.com]

I was talking to my grandmother online, and bike became bile... and I don't think anyone wants to train by running behind bile.

[lyshigz1989.livejournal.com]

Mine's a bit dirty...
My sister was having an IM conversation with my friend Jaycee, and she was making all sorts of lewd comments referring to his sexuality... and she made a few off-color comments about me as well, which I still have yet to "punish" her for... anyway, to retaliate, Jaycee wanted to type back "yeah, well u take it up the ass."

Wanted is the key word.
Notice how close the "u" key is to the "i", lol.

[azvolrien.livejournal.com]

I never get amusing typos. Mine are usually something like missing off quote marks, or when I type something and hit more than one key at the same time so it turns out kliujker tyhjisd.

So, here's pointless keyboard trivia for you. QWERTY keyboards hail back to the days of typewriters, and were arranged so that all the most common letters were typed with the left hand. This was to slow down typing and stop the typewriter sticking.

[yoodi.livejournal.com]

80% of the time, I type "Discoworld" instead of "Discworld".

[jesterquin.livejournal.com]

That one is my favourite.

[elysiancherry.livejournal.com]

Once during an MSN convo a friend said goodbye by giving me a bug instead of a hug. Ever since then we use the term 'bug hugs'. :)

It may not be as funny as those mentioned above, but I find it the cutest one I've experienced so far.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

I've had a few Freudian slips of the "just a sex" variety.

[emerald-maz.livejournal.com]

When I was typing out my essay on Alexander the Great, "his troops" often became "his tropos".

In case you don't know, to "go tropo" is to "go crazy". Very common in Auzzie, not as, but also quite, common here in New Zealand, "Have you gone tropo, you nut?!"
:-)