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Ask HN: How do I help a colleague who introduces a lot of typos?

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Re: Ask HN: How do I help a colleague who introduces a lot of typos?

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This is assuredly repeating stuff other people have said, but repetition isn't all that bad...

1. Everyone makes typos and typos are extraordinarily hard to find. There's a whole profession devoted to finding them in the publication process and it's not for 'normal' people. It should be automated as much as possible and y'all could agree that no one will check stuff in that fails a typo check (similar to requiring that code that is checked in must compile without warnings)

2. Dyslexia, etc. doesn't matter. What matters to the team is how the team is affected. I wouldn't worry so much about things I can't fix so easily (his denial) and focus on the things you can.

3. You could have a private conversation with him after finding out the better practices that help people move away from denial. One tip I believe is that the person whose behavior we want to change must feel fully safe. Sorta like the difference between when a friend tells you teres spinich in your teeth vs the group's jerk.

Re: Ask HN: How do I help a colleague who introduces a lot of typos?

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I remember that i did not used to make typos but since a particular period that i vaguely rememebr i have noticed that i make more and more of them. It was some kind of switch, not a long period that the transition took place in. I could not pinpoint the reason behind it but my theory is that my speed of typing increased and with it the amount of incidence of hitting the wrong keys. I think it started primarily when…

Dyslexia affects both reading and writing. It's an inherited difference in brain connection structure that can cause difficulty in associating the phonemes or sounds with letters and letter combinations. It provides advantages in three dimensional visualization and enables athletes to be ambidextrous.
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