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The art of turning thought into tiny permanent marks you'll immediately regret.
means To press keys (or once, to set physical letters) in order to produce written text.
from From Greek 'typos,' meaning a blow, a mark left by striking, or an impression — itself from 'typtein,' to strike. The word traveled through Latin 'typus' into English, first meaning a symbol or emblem, then the literal metal stamps printers used to press ink onto paper. 'Typewriter' and then 'type' as a verb followed naturally once machines let fingers do the striking that hands and hammers once did.
- origin
- from greek typos, meaning impression or mark
- typo irony
- the word type is often mistyped
- qwerty quirk
- designed to slow typists, not speed them
- autocorrect twist
- predicts your words, sometimes wrongly, confidently