CitroJim wrote:myglaren wrote:Lorem ipsum
This is a very famous piece of text used as a 'filler' when setting out a design of say, a webpage or when you want a big lump of text to test something.
Wikipedia has a whole article on it. It's not random at all and in fact the article offers an English Translation!
andmcit wrote:I sometimes make errors in my typing when my fingers have trouble keeping up with my thoughts and I too hurry my re-read.
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myglaren wrote:I sometimes find that I have written a word perfectly, but reversed. Haven't a clue how that happens
Both these conditions are very commonplace when thinking and typing at the same time. Nothing to worry about and very normal. I do it all the time and quite often type a load of dyslexia! Funnily enough nowadays I can only get my thoughts down by typing. I have totally lost the ability to do it using handwriting.
Some studies believe that this phenomenon is most often seen in those with above-average intelligence. In fact, when I was a kid struggling with my speech it was long thought that I was thinking faster than my vocalisation would allow me to articulate those thoughts and hence I'd trip up on my words and they'd come out as a garbled mess or just jam up - just as our typing often does....
It makes sense.
My handwriting is appaling, when I was 6 and we got our first computer I found it could keep up with my thoughts.
Consiquently my handwriting never developed much further despite being sent to classes when I was 7. At a parents' evening my handwriting teacher said "We don't know what's wrong with Andrew, he's not dyslexic, he's bright, but his handwriting is so slow" Dad replied "You do know he's left handed don't you?" The teacher replied supised "Oh is he?"
I'd been in the class for several months, we were given books on how to sit etc, I just mirrored it so found witing hard work and quite painful.
Of course it didn't change anything, I was just used as an example if someone hadn't done their homework "Andrew's done it, and he's left handed"
I'm actually cross lateral (think ambidextrous but without the benefits - a sign of intelligence though) so use my left hand for eating with a spoon and writting, but everything else is done with my right, except chopsticks, I can use either hand. I'm left eye dominant, but thanks to growing up watching the A Team, I aim with my right eye (it does make using enclosed red dot sights awkward).
These days when writing I'll often start a word from it's second letter, as my mind is moving much faster.
