Date: November 6, 2021Hello everyone! I just finished my rest day overtime tasks and hence here I am, trying to achieve my daily goal which is to publish one article per day.
This has been my goal since last month (October). However, due to different circumstances, I am not able to achieve it!. Out of 31 articles which is my target count because October has 31 days, I am able to publish 26 articles only. However, I am not upset because as I have said previously, the reason why I am setting my goals is just to draw a line that I'll try to follow. If I make it to my goal, then it's a success, but if not, then there's always next time..
By the way, did you ever heard of the term "Fat Finger Error"?
Last Wednesday, my colleague who is based in London suddenly chatted me over teams chat:
"Hi Khone"
I saw that she's still typing hence I did not replied to her right away. I thought she noticed it and hence will correct it. But when she sent her next message, it's about our work thingy and hence I replied to her and acknowledged what she said.
And then after a while, she sent me another message again saying:
"Sorry, I meant 'Hi Khing' - Fat Finger Syndrome"
It is my first encounter with these words so I searched for it and I am surprised that it seems to be a common term in trading but to the normal people, it just simply mean a typo error.
In my daily work where my fingers and my keyboard are my main medium or my main tool in my field of work as IT Analyst, I never had a day that I did not have a typo error. I am always experiencing it in chatting, sending emails and even creating documents (sometimes even in coding my programs). But what actually is the Iimpact of this in our writing?
A single typo can change the meaning of a sentence.
Missing letters.
There's one instances where I am exchanging conversation with my Line Manager over chat, and my introduction should be "Hello Sir", but I am not sure what happened to letter "O" and guess what, I sent "Hell Sir" instead of Hello Sir:)..
See that? from a supposedly polite salutation, it sounds like I am cursing my line manager. Good thing I did not used exclamation point in the end. I apologized right away and explained that it's just a typo.
Fingers not coordinating well with the instructions coming from the brain.
Did you ever experienced those instances where when you proof-read the message that you sent, you realized that it has missing word?
Let's say for example, you supposedly say "Please beware of dog" but then what you've typed in is missing the "of" and so what you've sent is "Please beware dog".
Unintentional and you're confident that your sentence is correct because that's what your brain has dictated your fingers but your fingers seems to have forgotten to input some of the relevant words, so, unintentionally, you've changed the message unintentially (just now I've got a typo). I supposed to say unintentionally but my fat fingers missed some letters again.
A single typo can cause you a huge loss.
Imagine this incident. You're paying your bills which just worth 1,000 PHP but you typed in 4 zeroes (10,000) instead of 3 zeroes (1, 000) without realizing it until you've already pressed "enter" or the "confirm" button and received the confirmation receipt. Instantly, you have lose 9,000 PHP.
How to cope with these?
Always PROOFREAD
I know our fingers are always excited to press the "Enter" button or the "Send" button but we must make it a habit to always proofread your email, chat, text or letter before sending it.
Admittedly, it's hard to do most of the time specially if you're in a hurry replying to someone but then again, proofreading will actually:
save our time and effort for the possible rework caused by multiple or recurring typos.
save you from potential huge loss.
avoid misspelled words due to missing letters.
prevent changing the meaning of the sentence unintentionally by missing some words or phrase in our sentence.
By proofreading, we always make sure that the messages that we're trying to convey are properly translated into letters.
I do have lots of embarrassing moments due to fat finger error but I thing it's best to share them some other time because it's already 3:00AM as of this writing.
How about you? How often do you experience a typo error? I know it's more prone to those who are using mobile phones because the screen is too small.
New word added to my brain dictionary. Well! I must say I have so much Fat finger error in my hands hehe because many times my fingers did errors. Good Afternoon.