I still can't make this a two-step correction, and in fact wandered off to thinking about the habit of identifying Greek verbs by the first person singular present indicative rather than the infinitive, and am now wondering about principle parts. And now realize that my friends, if they want that specific meaning, say "write-o" rather than "grapho." Which is no help at all to you.
It feels like two steps to me, but my sense of just what the two steps are isn't consistent. Until shortly before I wrote that, I hadn't really analyzed the mechanics before, so I'm still inserting debug-writes into subconscious processes to give myself a fair shot at figuring out exactly what my brain is doing.
At least part of the time, the first step is a separate ... uh, recognition hase ... an "Oh that word!whyisn'titinGreekletterstobeginwith" moment. On other trials that doesn't feel like it's a separate step but what comes after has an extra hiccup in it that I'm still trying to pin down how to describe. I think the presence or absence of Greek letters represented by Latin digraphs is a factor, but I haven't watched myself over a large enough sample of verbs yet.
(Gee, if I could just single-step through mental processes at that level ... but that's one of the many places the brain-as-computer analogy breaks down.)
Of course, there's always the chance that attempting to observe myself from the inside in real time will produce a different answer than a neurologist specializing in language processing and equipped with fMRI tools would come up with after analyzing my brain. *shrug* Gotta make the attempt with the tools I've got.
I don't think I've encountered "write-o" enough to really notice, but then again, I don't hear "graph-o" very often in the wild either (I hear "thinko" more often, and even that crops up a couple orders of magnitude less often than "typo"). When I was first searching for a word for that phenomenon (I forget how long ago), I came up with "manu-o" on my own (though I wasn't really satisfied with it) before bumping into "graph-o".
It would be interesting to sort our where each term (or none) is used. My wild-ass guess is that regardless of the geographical or interest-community distribution of each word, using a single word with that meaning is primarily a geek thing. It took me surprisingly long to work out a more formal phrase to use -- "transcription error". I'm not sure whether that's because of my being hackish, or my currently being sleep-deprived.
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At least part of the time, the first step is a separate ... uh, recognition hase ... an "Oh that word!whyisn'titinGreekletterstobeginwith" moment. On other trials that doesn't feel like it's a separate step but what comes after has an extra hiccup in it that I'm still trying to pin down how to describe. I think the presence or absence of Greek letters represented by Latin digraphs is a factor, but I haven't watched myself over a large enough sample of verbs yet.
(Gee, if I could just single-step through mental processes at that level ... but that's one of the many places the brain-as-computer analogy breaks down.)
Of course, there's always the chance that attempting to observe myself from the inside in real time will produce a different answer than a neurologist specializing in language processing and equipped with fMRI tools would come up with after analyzing my brain. *shrug* Gotta make the attempt with the tools I've got.
I don't think I've encountered "write-o" enough to really notice, but then again, I don't hear "graph-o" very often in the wild either (I hear "thinko" more often, and even that crops up a couple orders of magnitude less often than "typo"). When I was first searching for a word for that phenomenon (I forget how long ago), I came up with "manu-o" on my own (though I wasn't really satisfied with it) before bumping into "graph-o".
It would be interesting to sort our where each term (or none) is used. My wild-ass guess is that regardless of the geographical or interest-community distribution of each word, using a single word with that meaning is primarily a geek thing. It took me surprisingly long to work out a more formal phrase to use -- "transcription error". I'm not sure whether that's because of my being hackish, or my currently being sleep-deprived.
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