Linguistic capture errors

Language Log 2024-05-20

Summary:

Back in 2008, Arnold Zwicky described a category of typos that he called  "completion errors": …a "completion error", a typo that results you start writing or typing a word and then drift part-way in to another word.  I do this all too often with -ation and -ating words — starting the verb COOPERATING but ending […]

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https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=64101&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=linguistic-capture-errors

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language

Authors:

Mark Liberman

Date tagged:

05/20/2024, 11:11

Date published:

05/20/2024, 07:52