Words Created by Mistroked Keys

[mrdreamjeans]

A year ago I wrote a post titled, "Mentalpause". It's my term for what men and women go through as they age and can't quickly come up with a word or name, lose track of where they are in a story or find themselves repeating information. The word came to me because I mis-typed the word menopause. I figured a man my age should have a colorful and appropriate name for his forgetfulness:)

I never took typing in high school or beyond. I've learned to type pretty fast, but not always accurately. I never learned the correct fingering for the computer keyboard. (Who am I kidding? We didn't have computers when I went to high school:) Recently, it's led to some interesting typos. Some of the mistakes look like they should be real words in the dictionary. Here are a couple of words, a phrase and the mock definitions I've created for them. Maybe we can use them often enough that they'll come into general use. *grin*

Playment - Pay for Play ...

Fiendship - A friendship that has soured ...

Cereal Killer - Death by repeated intake of processed sugars and additives ...

Candystripper - A volunteer in a hospital who takes off their clothes for chocolate

Can anyone add to the list? :)

Comments

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

I seem to be typing moer and... (See what I mean?) more dyslexic these days, and I often read or hear things wrong--that's more of where we get our ideas for the show.

[ricksf.livejournal.com]

Mrs. Malaprop would be so pleased...

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

Thank you:)

Some of mine:

[furrbear.livejournal.com]

conslutant - self-explanatory

returd - someone who does stupid 'stuff' over and over

automagically - Poof it's fixed.

Sometimes my fingers type all lesdyxically

A famous exercise of this is the Washington Post Style Invitational which asks readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.

Two of my favorites from the contest are:

foreploy: any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of obtaining sex.

glibido: all talk and no action

Re: Some of mine:

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

I didn't know about the contest. I'll have to check it out. I like your term "automagically". I can see myself using it:)

[pagerbear.livejournal.com]

Once when I was a secretary typed in a policy manual that the company didn't discriminate on the basis of rage.

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

I can seeing that being fairly true, can't you? Rage .. or age ...

HUGS!

[beast-666.livejournal.com]

inslut - an offensive term for a place where men would like to be..
untie - what dyslexics do when they get together

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

I was slow getting the second one ... They "unite" ... Duh for me ... LOL!

[mikeybill.livejournal.com]

Avoid Dance - when you are walking down the footpath (sidewalk) and try to avoid a person coming in your direction, and they make exactly the same move.

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

That's perfect ... and true ...LOL!

[scottokc.livejournal.com]

Junkpot - When you get nothing but junk mail one day. "I've hit the junkpot!"

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, I get a slew of magazine and credit card offers weekly. That's a perfect term.

[scottokc.livejournal.com]

It seems like I get a lot of junk mail on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. It's mostly ads from different stores. I don't get any magazine offers, and get few credit card offers.

[designerotter.livejournal.com]

I wish I had a few good ones to offer... though I've already (nearly, before I caught it) addressed 'dear fiends' and have stumbled into the occasional 'fiendship'(which I praised for being a wonderful thing).
I was teaching some students about lettering recently and reminded them how important it is to always read what you are lettering. Just before college I worked in a department store sign shop, with a flatbed hand-set printing press, cranking out posters for an "August Shirt Sale"... except that I left out a consonant, in the second word. Guess which one. Needles to say, the sale didn't go over too well. oy!

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

Hmmm ... Well, if you had been creating the posters for a home and garden shop selling fertilizer, you'd have been right on the button! LOL!

I started to call you last night because I hadn't seen you here on LJ for a few days. Hope all is going well and that you're just busy. Btw, I don't know if you saw it, but the post just before "Porn Creep" was an unpdated picture post. Check it out when you have time!

HUGS!

[designerotter.livejournal.com]

How sweet of you to think to call me! I've been fine, but excessively busy of late. When I got off of Talley's Folly I suddenly had to catch up on a pile of work I had neglected... and then, immediately, came prep for the next show. So I've been digging out from under. Next week we're on Spring Break, at last - Hallelujah!

At the odd moment I've been trying to catch up on LJ as well...more or less randomly. I'll definitely go look up your picture post - thanks for the tip. Oh, and I laughed out loud at your 'gardening fertilizer' comment !
Hugz back !

[njsimca.livejournal.com]

Since day one I've been wanting to ask, but always forgotten when I should have asked, why do some journal posts have "comment" at the end, and some (like this one) have "reply"? They make me feel odd, that there are two different types, and I'm not sure if I'm doing it right, I just do it!
I took typing in high school - they had the room full of IBM Selectric's and I am so happy I did, because it has put me miles ahead of my coworkers (who are all returds) and allows me to get stuff done a lot faster and multitask (for instance, right now I'm daydreaming out the 16th floor window, looking at the west side of Newark. My boss, who lives in Newark, asked what I was doing and I said, "I keep looking out the window, waiting for something pretty to happen", and she said, "if you think it ain't pretty from here, you should see it up close"!) Now, my boss - there's a funny one... she seems relatively intelligent, but is always making absurd malapropisms like, "the icicles are thick on the trees and it can be tetris if you're out there, cause one could fall on your head". Her funniest, though was one morning when she said she had just come up from the cafeteria: "I had to ask for a spoon to stir the oatmeal because it looked just like semen." "HUH?!!" I thought as my head whipped around, hoping there was more to the story and I wouldn't have to ask, because sometimes asking makes me look like the idiot. She continued, "... I had to add hot water for them before it turned to concreek". Now it made sense!

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

Lordy!!! Her language use will turn your mind around ...

When she asked you what you were looking at, you should have told her you were looking at her pretty house:)

[bearhedded.livejournal.com]

...............I think of this as; the study of Englitch.