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"One I first saw": more on homophonically induced typing errors

April 8, 2020 @ 1:52 pm· Filed by under Errors, Information technology, Language and computers, Miswriting, Phonetics and phonology, Typography

A little over a week ago, I described how I mistyped "stalk" for "stock".  That led to a vigorous discussion of precisely how people pronounce "stalk".  (As a matter of fact, in my own idiolect I do pronounce "stock" and "stalk" identically.)  See:

"Take stalk of: thoughts on philology and Sinology" (3/29/20)

I just now typed "One I first saw…" when I meant "When I first saw…".

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The wrong way to write Chinese characters

November 28, 2018 @ 7:54 am· Filed by under Errors, Miswriting, Writing, Writing systems

This is one of the best, general, brief introductions to the challenges of the Chinese writing system I know of:

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