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JaneTranslates
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Yes, and you're right. (write, Wright, rite) Mar 2, 2007

María Teresa Taylor Oliver wrote:



Am I making any sense to you?



One of my professors (an Argentine, teaching translation in Puerto Rico) used to be amazed that an English speaker could not necessarily tell him how to pronounce a given word. I'll have to approximate his words in English (this is not the Spanish forum), but he would say, "I asked XX how to pronounce __________ and he told me, 'I don't know, I've never heard it'!"

English has many wonderful characteristics, including its economy of expression and its receptiveness to loanwords and new coinages. (I don't know about other countries, but in Puerto Rico, it is impossible to have an all-Spanish conversation about computers.) Spelling and pronunciation, however, were not designed with the English-as-a-second-language learner in mind!

Sorry; my language, but not my fault!

Jane

[Edited at 2007-03-02 22:07]


 
claudia bagnardi
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Mine... Mar 2, 2007

Aiam veri sori for ior speling misteics. uóts rong uiz iu ól? It jas never jápend tu mi.

Now seriously:
My typical are...my own name: Caludia
In Spanish: pordque
In English: (and this is awful) coproration

This is really fun!
Claudia


 
Yasmin7903
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Shcule Mar 2, 2007

I type "sch" quite often in a wrong order, "Shcule" for e. g., and sometimes when writing English I replace "sh" with "sch". Also I tend to forget the first t in "Institut", because in German it is not pronounced.
I used to misspell (better to say my own name at first, writing "Ysamin" or "Yasnim", but because it appears in my email and a number of forums etc., which means that I have to type it many times a day, I can now get it right even with closed eyes.


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I type "sch" quite often in a wrong order, "Shcule" for e. g., and sometimes when writing English I replace "sh" with "sch". Also I tend to forget the first t in "Institut", because in German it is not pronounced.
I used to misspell (better to say my own name at first, writing "Ysamin" or "Yasnim", but because it appears in my email and a number of forums etc., which means that I have to type it many times a day, I can now get it right even with closed eyes.


[Edited at 2007-03-02 22:53]
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Nizamettin Yigit
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Victim of auto correct Mar 2, 2007

Hi,


Sizin
sizing

sonra
sonar


I am lazy and dont want to change auto-correct function and list to be corrected...

Regards,


 
Buzzy
Buzzy
Local time: 09:30
French to English
finanical and pubic prosecutor Mar 2, 2007

Not too good for someone who works mostly in accounting with the occasional project for the local courts - and the spellcheck sees nothing wrong with "pubic prosecutor"...
I can generally manage my name though!
Thanks for a fun thread!


 
Anne Patteet
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I'm having a blast!!! :D :D :D Mar 3, 2007

Thanks for this post! I've been laughing so much all my tensions are vanishing (for a while at least)...

Well, mine are:

French:
masi for mais
poru for pour, so systematically that I have been thinking of making it an Autocorrect, but then I always end up thinking I'd better learn to type right, which I never do of course...

and when I accelerate too much, I tend to put the last letter of the previous word at the beginnin gof the nex tone... mak
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Thanks for this post! I've been laughing so much all my tensions are vanishing (for a while at least)...

Well, mine are:

French:
masi for mais
poru for pour, so systematically that I have been thinking of making it an Autocorrect, but then I always end up thinking I'd better learn to type right, which I never do of course...

and when I accelerate too much, I tend to put the last letter of the previous word at the beginnin gof the nex tone... makes me crazy!

English: all words in -ation become -aiton. Why not in French??? Big mistery. Maybe because of the sound, but that's ridiculous!

Have a good weekend everyone!
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Anna Villegas
Anna Villegas
Mexico
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One of my best Clients... Mar 3, 2007

Her name is Jill... Why do I always write KILL?????



 
Barbara Cochran, MFA
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Rhythm Mar 3, 2007

I always hope I'm able to write the Spanish "ritmo" instead to get across this idea. I have no problem with it in Spanish and Spanish isn't even my native language. Seems odd that I never seem to be able to get it straight in my own language. Sometimes I even have trouble finding this word in an English-language dictionary since my mind gets so muddled trying to think of the correct spelling. I have much better luck with a not too terribly common word which sometimes precedes it: circadian.
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I always hope I'm able to write the Spanish "ritmo" instead to get across this idea. I have no problem with it in Spanish and Spanish isn't even my native language. Seems odd that I never seem to be able to get it straight in my own language. Sometimes I even have trouble finding this word in an English-language dictionary since my mind gets so muddled trying to think of the correct spelling. I have much better luck with a not too terribly common word which sometimes precedes it: circadian.

I'm guilty of typing "Hell" in place of "Hello," too. I just hope I caught it every time. Is that maybe why I never heard back from Translation Agency X?
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Ioana Costache
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porject, my nemesis Mar 3, 2007

Jenny Forbes wrote:

"Copmany", "porject" and "prupose" seem to be among my subconscious favourites - I've even set "autocorrect" to correct them, they happen so often.


For me, it's definitely "porject". Had to set autocorrect, too. And I often skip a certain letter from "public" - I leave the results to your imagination


 
Adi Al-Ka'bi
Adi Al-Ka'bi
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Bureau Mar 4, 2007

"Bureau" is my worst one. I always tell myself that it goes "boor eee aaa ooo" but never get the spelling right. The spell corrector rarely corrects it to "Bureau". I can never find it in my word speller dictionary because I rarely spell the second character properly and I eventually always end up sticking it in "search" on the net to see some site that spells it correctly. There are many more typos, but that one is my nightmare.

 
Joyce A
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I had always spelled "weird" weirdly... Mar 5, 2007

I thought that it was supposed to be "wierd."

I'd been spelling it that way for so long that it didn't look weird any more.

I only caught my mistake when I did one of those spelling tests that pop up on the internet. The test helped correct my bad habit.

But now that I've written this, it's all looking weird to me--or is it wierd?

[Edited at 2007-03-05 13:40]


 
Edwal Rospigliosi
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Spain
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Letter combination Mar 7, 2007

"oi" instead of "io", for example, "constitutoin" instead of "constitution". Happens that my "o" finger is a bit slower, so I always get caught in this typo.

So that's my dirty secret confessoin...


 
Julian Wood
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Birstol Mar 7, 2007

For some reason, I can't even write the name of the city I live in-Bristol
Guess the words we write the most are the ones we take least care over!


 
Nicholas Ferreira
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Canada
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Also in Spanish Apr 20, 2007

For 15 years I have missed the accent every time I wrote "Adiós", and I never realized until today!!

 
Nadine Kahn
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necessary too May 2, 2007

IreneN wrote:

and phsychiatry

rifkind wrote:

Actually, my worst was in college when I starting replacing the word "Hungarian" with "Rumanian", which confused my Hungarian professor who happend to be Hungary in 1956.


From interpreting-related collection (borrowed):

Simo interpreter at the environmental event:
Attention, please! All beavers mentioned in the last 30 minutes shall be considered badgers.


I have problems with double s and/or double c in a word. I tend to invert them.

Necessary, necessity, ... and prefixes, especially succ-
success for instances.

Also with "exitement" for some unknown reason.


 
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