On Thu, 07 May 2026 15:51:16 GMT
athel.cb@gmail.com <user12588@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
Wel I'm obvously yunger, fiter and beter at spoting spelin misteaks.
The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> posted:
Verily, in article <10tggiu$1i922$1@dont-email.me>, did
peter@pmoylan.org deliver unto us this message:
My incidence of typos is getting worse since my vision has started to
deteriorate. Apparently my fingers used to be more disciplined when they >>>> knew that I was watching.
That's true for me as well.
Me too. I find it almost impossible to type a short sentence without omitting
letters or substituting wrong ones. Proofreading has become an absolute
necessity, and even then I don't catch all the mistakes.
I think we're watching our output with
peripheral vision, and that becomes less effective as we age.
My 'newest' trick is to hit the space bar a millisecond before I type
the last letter of a word. For some reason this happens most often
after the word "the".
On 01/05/2026 23:07, Garrett Wollman wrote:
In article <JT7JR.14786$P5we.6865@fx05.ams1>,
Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:
Interesting that they never used that name [HMS Trump] before or
since - and the RN is in the habit of reusing ship names.
e.g. There have been 22 ships called HMS Falcon, and 39 called HMS Swallow.
Only two called HMS Guerriere, though. After the second was captured
and burned by USS Constitution during the War of 1812 they didn't see
fit to reuse the name (unlucky?). Both Guerrieres had been French
ships before their capture by the Royal Navy.
But a fair number of HMS Presidents.
The one taken from the US navy was the fourth of that name - replacing
the one captured from the French (Prosident) in 1806.
Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:
On 01/05/2026 23:07, Garrett Wollman wrote:
In article <JT7JR.14786$P5we.6865@fx05.ams1>,
Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:
Interesting that they never used that name [HMS Trump] before or
since - and the RN is in the habit of reusing ship names.
e.g. There have been 22 ships called HMS Falcon, and 39 called HMS >>Swallow.
Only two called HMS Guerriere, though. After the second was captured
and burned by USS Constitution during the War of 1812 they didn't see
fit to reuse the name (unlucky?). Both Guerrieres had been French
ships before their capture by the Royal Navy.
But a fair number of HMS Presidents.
The one taken from the US navy was the fourth of that name - replacing
the one captured from the French (Prosident) in 1806.
OTOH the name HMS 'Royal Charles' has been tabu, so far,
after the defeats of the previous ones by the Dutch
under their Memorable Admiral Van Broom.
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