I am generally a very opinionated guy. It would be pretty hard to write a blog every day if I weren’t. Whatever the topic, I’ve got an opinion on it, and if a new question pops up, I can usually form an opinion on the fly with no problem at all, which may cast some doubt on the validity of my opinions but, hey, they are opinions. Also, I don’t tend to change my opinions quickly. I like being right and will defend a wrong position perhaps longer than is wise, just because I hate being wrong.
But, there are exceptions. Today, one of my facebook friends raised this interesting question: to what extent does a typo reveal your true thoughts? My immediate thought, despite it being a question I’d never considered before, was “Absolute bollocks. It’s not the same as a Freudian slip, which is caused by your mouth saying what your mind is really thinking, because you have less than total control over your own expression. There’s the question of the keyboard to be considered , and some of us are fat fingered fumblers.”
But it only took me a few seconds to see the other side of the situation. The fingers are just as much an extension of the human mind as the tongue is and, as long as we’re working with a keyboard, so is it. Also, I’ve noticed lately, largely because I tend to write this blog late at night, when I am somewhat fatigued, there are frequent mistakes such as to for too, new for knew and, a couple of days ago in my blog about the weird holes appearing in Siberia, I wrote wholes. Which they are, of course. Every hole is a whole hole.
So, I’d like to see some research on this. Is it the same as a Freudian slip? Is a Freudian slip even always a Freudian slip?
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