On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 08:07:40PM -0400, Alexx S Kay wrote:
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> > Where does "thinko'd" come from?
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> It's an adaptation of "typo". I probably got it from Usenet, some years
> back. It's used to indicate that the mistake was not my fingers hitting
> the wrong keys, but my brain making the wrong associations.
There is also 'mouseo', which is a mistake with the obvious device.
See 'The Hackers Dictionary.'
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