I agree with your idea about getting typing feedback when using small
keyboards. I do the same thing with my iPhone. I must. Playing games with
it is interesting, too. The games can be pretty challenging.
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From: "Valiant8086" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 1:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Blind Gamers Being Taken Seriously?
Hi.
I've found that I also tend to do the proofreading as I write. I'll
usually write a sentence, line or maybe a whole paragraph, then try to
read it carefully to see what I did. I never type with keyboard echo
turned on except on my MBook since it's keyboard is so much smaller I feel
it's a good idea to have constant info on which buttons I'm hitting, at
least for now. I find it less distracting to type on my computer with no
typing echo. Especially since I type so fast I really don't get to hear
what letters I actually hit anyway, except on that MBook I mentioned
earlier.
I think it was Thomas that mentioned colons, semi colons and dashes being
semi acceptable errors. I hope so since I never really use them myself.
Very occasionally I will try to use a dash to add a tidbit onto the end of
a sentence, but I'm not really sure if I'm getting it right so usually I
just find a way to make a new sentence out of it. One thing I notice a lot
is messages where none of the word I's are capitalized. i think people
usually do that when they type on something that speaks with a speech
synthesizer besides Eloquence which doesn't read the word I differently
than the letter i. i really find it difficult to understand sentences when
Eloquence does strange inflections because of that. I think someone named
Ian, please excuse if I'm using the wrong spelling for the name, who types
on his iPhone is doing that a lot. I understand totally given the extra
step to hit the shift key on all the uppercase letters. I try to take the
time to do it myself.
I can legitimately keep this one on topic because truthfully the reason I
replied to your message was because of how I found out I really do
proofread, while I write, rather than doing it, as you say, after the
fact. Hmm think I used too many commas there. Anyway, when I play Alter
Aeon, I use Monkey Term as my mud client of choice. Well, it doesn't do
this on any other computer, or for any other players who use it- at least
as far as I know, but when I do say line with JAWS to read my command
before I hit enter to send it in, my carrot gets moved to the beginning of
the line. That stinks because often I will read what I've got so far, then
add a few more things onto the end, oops, beginning or perhaps somewhere
in the middle, but certainly not the end, of the sentence. I've never seen
that happen any where else but goodness it's annoying. Here I am typing a
command, and I want to check what I have so far before I type too much to
be able to read the beginning of the command, but that means when I type
again my remaining part of the command gets put on the beginning. *ouch!*
Oh, That reminds me. Those of you who'd like practice typing, and want to
have fun while practicing, I suggest playing a mud like Alter Aeon. You
have to type a lot to play, and if you socialize you'll be typing that
much more. You'll eventually become faster too.
You know, I just realized after I wrote that that there really aren't that
many poor typers on there. Plenty of spelling errors and silly screw ups
do to going too fast but the punctuation usually goes in some semblance of
the right place. You should have heard me on my MBook earlier though. I
was having a bad time of it, and trying to hurry to boot. I typed
something to my clannies and hit enter. I swear I have no idea what I
tried to write. It was only three words but I have no clue what those
words were supposed to be- none of them were words I ever heard. Typos are
funny to me as long as they don't get seen by the wrong people. I've
managed to make the most amazing sounds by accident before.
I use that Tiny Spell program someone mentioned on here earlier myself.
Mostly I use it to try and make sure I don't mutilate anything when I'm
writing room descriptions and stuff like that for Cyber Assault, where I'm
a builder. Everybody simply has to know I write emails with Thunderbird
given my persistent signature. I keep the option to spell check messages
before sending turned on. When I hit ctrl+enter to send, I land in the
spellchecker- assuming I made any typos that is, and I either go through
the process of a good spell check or just hit alt+s to go ahead and send
it.
I saw some flaming going on regarding this subject. It was funny though
that the flaming was all from people who didn't really take part in the
discussion in any other way. Speaking of the discussion, it was a good
one. I feel it was conducted in an unusually mature manner. I hope this
kind of attitude remains apparent in the future when the list starts
gnawing on a new subject with an ever lengthening thread.
And that's that, another one of my long messages. Why do I always start
writing whoppers at 2 in the morning.
Sent with Thunderbird 3.1.14 portable.
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