These might sound familiar.
You try to use the letter "A" and hit the wrong key, so everything thereafter is capitalized.
You try to use quotation marks and skip to the next line.
You make an attempt to backspace and erase some mistake, but the mistake is still there, followed by a string of equals signs=================
I'm prone to all of these and more, especially on a small keyboard. I tend to discover the error at some point, though.
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I don't even have the excuse of a small keyboard when I make typing errors. As often as not it's because I'm going too fast but there are always those blunders like holding a key down a second too long, or as you noted, hitting the capital key by mistake. So far I haven't managed the quotation mark skip, though.
It's funny now to remember having hand written long letters regularly.. and hardly ever making mistakes. I'm guessing because it's so easy to type on a screen it's also easy to get sloppy.
Amazing that you haven't had that happen as the quote mark (British single unless you press shift) is right next to the return/enter key. The equals sign thing is the most flustering, though, since it piles one thing (or more) on top of another.
That's an interesting point. I'm certainly capable of making mistakes while writing longhand, and have done so many times. But your frame of thinking might also be different while writing a longhand letter. Less focused on a specific result, so if you write something you weren't expecting, you just go with it.
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