Saturday, March 08, 2008

Fun and games

The kids played a wicked game of scrabble with gramma while mom and dad went to a movie
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  1. The Rat12:14 AM

    Yes, due to a typographical error the original title of this blog entry was "fun and hands" instead of "fun and games".

    Odd as it may seem, "hands" and "games" are typographically similar when you are typing using a cell-phone. HANDS and GAMES are typed using the same numbers on a cell phone key pad. Try it yourself and see.

    Typos on a QWERTY keyboard are usually adjacent letters, or transposition of letters. Common typos from the QWERTY keyboard might be "snet" instead of "sent" or "prohect" instead of "project"

    The advent of T9 keyboards (using phone kepads to type words) has caused a different kind of typographical error. Errors that wouldn't seem at all feasible of a QWERTY. Like THREE for TIRED, OF for ME.

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  2. The Rat12:16 AM

    It wasn't until after I posted this picture that I realized that there was a single example of a "non word" on the scrabble board. "YAT" was a charity word, a misspelling that was allowed to be counted as a real word.

    Emmalee intended to spell "YACHT".

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  3. The Rat12:17 AM

    Would you believe "YAT" is actually in the dictionary. It's a dialect of English! No lie.

    So, had someone challenged the validity of "YAT" in this game, they'd have lost the challenge.

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