Typos (or: Is it a Freudian slip?) - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Estelyn Telcontar · 03-19-2003, 01:51 AM

Haven't we all smiled at the strange twists letters take when we type quickly? Here's our chance to share some of those that inadvertantly give new meaning to the sentence in which we find them.

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...the froging of the Rings is not remembered by anybody living.

Here's one that has been posted on the homophone thread, though it is actually a typo, and what a great one!

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The Eldar weeded for the most part in their youth and soon after their fiftieth year

more to come...

[ March 19, 2003: Message edited by: Estelyn Telcontar ]

Lush · 03-20-2003, 12:21 AM

Here is a recent gem from chat that Bruce MacCulloch has graciously allowed me to post:

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i tried the downs enclopedia bu tits not there i dont know whre else to look

Right, hon, that would be because the Downs Encyclopedia doesn't have entries for smut! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Raefindel · 03-20-2003, 10:08 PM

Lush, that's about the best one I've ever seen. [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img]

Estelyn Telcontar · 03-21-2003, 07:50 AM

Here's what one poster calls the part of the book that is left out of Peter Jackson's movie:

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the Scorning of the Shire

How appropriate! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

[ March 21, 2003: Message edited by: Estelyn Telcontar ]

Lush · 03-22-2003, 02:35 AM

Another misadventure:

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-But i got to dance!!!
-Lush loves to dance
-With the past-expiration date rat boys?
-Frat

Actually, Merendis, judging by the social scene at Duke, the word "rat" is rather appropriate. Also, the word "Mordor," but we won't get into that for now.

[ March 22, 2003: Message edited by: Lush ]

Diamond18 · 03-22-2003, 05:26 PM

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Are the ruins on the rock under the wizard Tolkien related?

That would be the ruins of Tolkien's ancient ancestral home, I suppose.

Silmarien · 03-22-2003, 06:41 PM

well Estelyn I've got one of yours

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All other fora are open to every member.

Sorry I didn't realise it was a word. [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

[ March 24, 2003: Message edited by: Silmarien ]

Lush · 03-22-2003, 07:38 PM

plural of forum, Silmarien. I believe.

Estelyn Telcontar · 03-23-2003, 12:41 AM

Yes indeed - both 'forums' or 'fora' can be used as the plural of forum. For some reason, I prefer the latter. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

dragoneyes · 03-23-2003, 06:55 AM

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speak to Borrow-Wight

If someone has that name, it could get quite confusing.

Beren87 · 03-23-2003, 12:18 PM

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Borrow-Wight

That infernal Borrow-Wight never returns my things!

Beren87 · 03-23-2003, 07:52 PM

I don't know if this was a typo or just a mistake, but I found it really amusing. It's in one of the quote threads.

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from the silmarillion right?
Wait isn't it aragorn?

Manardariel · 03-24-2003, 10:30 AM

Hihi, those are so funny. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
I also liked

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The Barrow- Weight

Wonder how much Barrow-Weight you have to have to be one! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Galadriel9 · 03-24-2003, 12:05 PM

Ha! Those are so funny, how come everyone else notices these things?

Rimbaud · 03-24-2003, 12:46 PM

*

VanimaEdhel · 03-24-2003, 06:29 PM

There was one on the Chat just too good to resist:

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i have ot kicke out TOW MANY TIMESSSS

If one of you could translate that for me, I would be ever so much in your debt. I still can't figure out what he/she/neuter was trying to say!

Silmarien · 03-24-2003, 08:49 PM

I think whoever they are trying to say they've got kicked out too many times. Probably for using ssssssssssssss's like that.

Beren87 · 03-24-2003, 09:10 PM

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nope i sadi annunfineil had oen of them so chsoe form those!

Ah, the granduer of incoherency.

Belin · 03-25-2003, 09:48 PM

Recently, in chat, someone made a reference to something that had happened

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a few eeeks ago

Hm, I really thought I was the only person who measured time in eeeks! Then again, this same person had also decided to read a book

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once a moth

so her understanding of time as a whole seems to have been afflicted by the evils of typoism....

--Belin Ibaimendi

Susan Delgado · 03-26-2003, 11:54 AM

Wow, Belin, that's hilarious! Maybe she's just confused by this whole typing thing and can't quite figure out where the letters are supposed to go, so the ones she's not sure of she replaces or eliminates entirely? [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

[ March 26, 2003: Message edited by: Susan Delgado ]

VanimaEdhel · 03-26-2003, 06:45 PM

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nope i sadi annunfineil had oen of them so chsoe form those!

I think they said:

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Nope, I said Annunfiniel had one of them so choose from those.

Now I want to know what they were talking about...

Then there was:

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* Arwen feels really week.

I want to feel like a measurement of time! That would be fun!

[ March 26, 2003: Message edited by: VanimaEdhel ]

Diamond18 · 03-27-2003, 04:42 PM

I thought this was cute...it's a topic title:

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Westron and Mordern English

Yes, well, a lot of modern English is indeed straight out of Mordor.

**The Saucepan Man** · 03-27-2003, 09:35 PM

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... sorry about speling it wrong

Kind of ironic ...

Silmarien · 03-27-2003, 09:38 PM

I just found this one

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and the growing force of Sauton doesn´t help either.

Is Sauton something edible? [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

Estelyn Telcontar · 03-28-2003, 02:31 AM

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I hope that didn't boar anyone to death.

What a horribly painful way to die! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Annunfuiniel · 03-28-2003, 04:59 AM

Here are some typos that (for some reason) are close to my heart:

anfuniel
annufinel
annunfineil
annufiniel (whatever)

And the best/worst part is? The first two were in same post and all these are by one and the same writer! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img](For more information check the "Bad Guy" Trivia... [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img])

[ March 28, 2003: Message edited by: Annunfuiniel ]

VanimaEdhel · 03-28-2003, 06:58 PM

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* ObiWanKenobi 's name origin is japeneese

And the origin of Rachel, my name, is Heebru, I guess?

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YUO DON'T RESPECT MEEEE?

Well, now that you put it that way...

EDIT: Oh, quick note so that no one thinks that I am being disgustingly picky: these are typographical errors that the people never fix. Some of them even deny the correct spelling of the words (and, if you know us, we make sure to try to correct them [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] ).

Just wanted to make it clear that I know that everyone has a slip of the finger at times. I just like it when people admit their mistakes instead of getting offended and storming out of the Chat.

[ March 29, 2003: Message edited by: VanimaEdhel ]

Silmarien · 03-29-2003, 12:26 AM

Here's another

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you and a freind re-enact lotr and the honnit

A new creature emerges from M-E

Diamond18 · 03-31-2003, 10:11 PM

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Bell Ferny

This doesn't really need any elaboration... [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Silmarien · 04-04-2003, 05:32 PM

this one post was so full of mistakes I didn't know where to start or finish. So here's the whole thing.

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i knw sorry ok i wil use the period thingy. u are righ talot of variations in elvish since tolkien never completed it so they expanded it. its ok to haev diff varations like as in chinese have liek two varations for one language like manderness adn cantonese. so i mean having diffs is ok jsut not like u know totally something a 5 year old made but i would like to learn them all. Grey company also has a place were u can learn uh the other elven language but its in there secluded dictonary. SO u can find it to learn that and other stuff ijust would liek to learn all elvish if i could well
Quel fara= Good hunting

i tink u guys are cool well later. and were these periods better hahah.

someone types a little fast

And how about this one

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I thought they were desendands of the Men of Gale!?!?

[ April 04, 2003: Message edited by: Silmarien ]

Beren87 · 04-05-2003, 05:06 PM

Just found this one, but Bruce caught it before me...bah. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

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Mirror, Mirror, on the wall... who's the farest Elve of all...???

I don't know! They all seem rather close to me.

Iarwain · 04-05-2003, 07:18 PM

Yeah, Beren, that was a funny one. I actaully posted on it. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Silmarien that was lik abslutele ilariousi mea ntotaly, wo wi used a punktuashin thing funn yIarwain

VanimaEdhel · 04-06-2003, 03:37 PM

Silmarien: Wasn't that from the Language Forum? You should've seen what it took to introduce that poster to the period. It used to be all one big, run-on thought. And she still doesn't get the concept of Grey-Company Elvish versus Tolkien Elvish.

Beren87 · 04-06-2003, 09:59 PM

I just found this one in the Chat,

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"whispers to herself "u guys r so meen'"

Now what makes it really amusing is that she's mad because someone just called her a man. So is she attempting to say men or mean here? The world will never know...

Edit: Just found another one by the same person.

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y does mer keep kikin me out

I think she just answered her own question.

[ April 07, 2003: Message edited by: Beren87 ]

VanimaEdhel · 04-07-2003, 10:09 AM

Beren87:

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"whispers to herself "u guys r so meen'"

What I find amusing is that she managed to spell "whispers" and "herself", and wrote out "to" instead of saying "2", but she goes into "u" and "r", and misspells "mean", saying "meen". You would think that she would have said, "whsprs 2 hrslf 'u guys r so meen'", or, "whispers to herself, 'you guys are so mean'". The fact that she did a combination is quite interesting.

Diamond18 · 04-07-2003, 02:11 PM

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He could at least say INTELIGENT stuff!!

Isn't it ironic when people spell that word wrong?

Balin999 · 04-07-2003, 02:31 PM

That'S the whole quote that Diamond just pointed out:

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I mean...Realy!! He could at least say INTELIGENT stuff!!

Ali G would say, "yeah, whateva!"
But then, it was the members first post and maybe he/she was just nervous [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Eressië Ailin · 04-07-2003, 03:13 PM

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Sarumans army is bread for one purpose

That's very... interesting. Why exactly does he have an army made out of food?

Beren87 · 04-07-2003, 05:12 PM

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like I said before dimland...you don't have to tell us. we with our higher intellegence levals have found out already

I just love it when that happens. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

VanimaEdhel · 04-07-2003, 05:32 PM

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u r stupid

I'm sure that hurt the person he/she/it was saying it too. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

03-20-2003, 10:08 PM	#3
Raefindel Sword of the Spirit Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Washington State Posts: 1,313	Lush, that's about the best one I've ever seen. [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img] __________________ Blessed be the Lord my Strength, Who trained my hands for war and my fingers to fight. Psallm 144:1

03-22-2003, 07:38 PM	#8
Lush Fair and Cold Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: the big onion Posts: 1,770	plural of forum, Silmarien. I believe. __________________ ~The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. This is one of mine~

03-23-2003, 12:41 AM	#9
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	Yes indeed - both 'forums' or 'fora' can be used as the plural of forum. For some reason, I prefer the latter. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ 'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...'

03-24-2003, 12:05 PM	#14
Galadriel9 Haunting Spirit Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: UK Posts: 62	Ha! Those are so funny, how come everyone else notices these things? __________________ Why do they call the small candy bars the "fun sizes"? Wouldn't be more fun to eat a big one?

03-24-2003, 12:46 PM	#15
Rimbaud The Perilous Poet Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Heart of the matter Posts: 1,062	* __________________ And all the rest is literature

03-24-2003, 08:49 PM	#17
Silmarien Wight Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Lost but Found Posts: 199	I think whoever they are trying to say they've got kicked out too many times. Probably for using ssssssssssssss's like that. __________________ Though here at journeys end I lie in dakness buried deep, beyond all towers strong and high beyond all mountains steep, above all shadows rides the Sun and Stars forever dwell:I will not say the Day is done nor bid the Stars farewell!

03-26-2003, 11:54 AM	#20
Susan Delgado The Perished Flame Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: behind my eyes Posts: 1,096	Wow, Belin, that's hilarious! Maybe she's just confused by this whole typing thing and can't quite figure out where the letters are supposed to go, so the ones she's not sure of she replaces or eliminates entirely? [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] [ March 26, 2003: Message edited by: Susan Delgado ] __________________ "Man as a whole, Man pitted against the universe, have we seen him at all 'til we see that he is like a hero in a fairy tale?"

03-28-2003, 04:59 AM	#26
Annunfuiniel Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Something close like Shire Posts: 769	Here are some typos that (for some reason) are close to my heart: anfuniel annufinel annunfineil annufiniel (whatever) And the best/worst part is? The first two were in same post and all these are by one and the same writer! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img](For more information check the "Bad Guy" Trivia... [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]) [ March 28, 2003: Message edited by: Annunfuiniel ] __________________ Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt.

04-05-2003, 07:18 PM	#32
Iarwain Pugnaciously Primordial Paradox Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Birnham Wood Posts: 800	Yeah, Beren, that was a funny one. I actaully posted on it. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Silmarien that was lik abslutele ilariousi mea ntotaly, wo wi used a punktuashin thing funn yIarwain __________________ "And what are oaths but words we say to God?"

04-06-2003, 03:37 PM	#33
VanimaEdhel Etheral Enchantress Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Wellesley College! Posts: 1,461	Silmarien: Wasn't that from the Language Forum? You should've seen what it took to introduce that poster to the period. It used to be all one big, run-on thought. And she still doesn't get the concept of Grey-Company Elvish versus Tolkien Elvish. __________________ "I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can be together all the time." - Hobbes of Calvin and Hobbes