He won't understand typos or initialisms or acronyms

[WhatsInATypo]

SOMEWHAT LIGHTHEARTED.

DP is like that all the time and it drives me up the wall.

Example 1: I was about to get us a takeaway and sent the message 'do you want the set that comes witk fries?' and he sent back '?' followed by 'what's witk?'.

Example 2: We were talking about how people were all scrambling to get tickets for the Taylor Swift concert. Somewhere along the way I sent 'think TS tickets can only be bought if you've got some special code though' and got a 'TS?' in return.

Example 3: I told him I was going to the store to get a cake to celebrate something. Got there and texted 'Tiramisu or Black Forest' and he sent 'for the cake?'.

I get wanting 100% clarity but he's a smart man surely some common sense and inference will do sometimes? I DO NOT do vague references and expect him to read my mind btw. All my complaints are when the above 3 examples happen. AIBU?

For those like the ops DH who couldn't read witk as anything but witk, can you read this easily? Just curious. Bit like peie who don't see pictures in their heads or have voices in their head, just interested in our differences

Cod sounds like a bit of a tawt.

Example 1: I was about to get us a takeaway and sent the message 'do you want the set that comes witk fries?' and he sent back '?' followed by 'what's witk?'.

Is it only me who is baffled by the word 'set' in the OP's sentence? The 'witk' is clear to me but wtf is a 'set'?

I'm guessing set menu/meal. Like you often get in a Chinese restaurant or takeaway.

I don't know what witk is tbf

I agree with this. He either has incredibly bad reading comprehension and a total lack of deriving information from context, or he thinks he is teaching you something with his responses. Either way he needs to learn not to do it.

I'm not sure I believe you. I bet even most ten year olds would be able to fill in the gap if you gave them the sentence "The meal comes ___ fries". In context there's only one word that's likely to be between "comes" and "fries", and grammatically you have very few options for what part of speech might go there. If, instead of a gap, you see an apparent nonsense word there, but it's only one letter different from the common preposition that you'd expect to see 99% of the time, then it's hardly a great feat of inference to guess it's a typo, rather than a word you've never come across before or an obscure acronym in lower case.

off I agree. I think those saying they don't know what "wikt " means aren't reading the OP

DP also loves to talk about how 'it could be anything so how would I know' but in the examples I've given, the idea that I would be referring to anything else is just so improbable it's all a bit ridiculous.

'Do you want the set that comes witk fries?'

What acronym could witk possibly stand for in that context?

Not the same thing, but I have a good friend who doesn't follow context or make inferences in conversation, and can't make head or tail of mystery programmes or movies, needs plots explained as the movie unfolds (this drives me batty), simply doesn't join dots.... Baffled by turns of phrase like "play it close to your chest" though English is her first language. Very bright, graduated with first class honours in a science subject. No issue with the written word, so there's that to be thankful for, and she's otherwise a lovely (ND) friend...

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But I think your H is being a twat.

@WhatsInATypo I am neurodiverse.

I have adhd and ASD.

My brain does not work the same way as a neurotypical brain.

It isn't my fault and it's not something I can help.

I read your post quickly and my brain stuck wicked in there 🤷🏼‍♀️

Next time he does this, ask him in all sincerity how he manages to get through each day with the weapons grade level of communication incompetence.

Excellent suggestion.

I think most children of eight or even younger could work it out, although arguably if you gave them the sentence with a gap (rather than the OP's) typo there are two equally plausible words.

It could be special wicked fries. There's all kinds of weird acronyms these days.

Maybe it's "Table 4 getting soapy with the fries!"

I'm neurodiverse and there are plenty of situations where I haven't understood things like this. I don't like acronyms - I remember them well and so they can be confused quite easily depending on how out of context they are. My degree subject had a lot to do with 'TOM' - theory of mind. It connects to brain development. In a professional role it stands now for 'Target Operating Model' - I know this, but just the acronym still mightily confuses me with the meaning I associate first.

Someone's asked me for a notebook before, during a power cut (in the day when most of us had PC computers). As there was a power cut, my thinking meant I produced a paper notebook. They looked at me as if I was an alien.

I've been asked on the phone 'Can you make sure that there's some chicken that's unthawed for dinner?' There was chicken already out on the worktop. That one was a very weird brain loop because the word had not been 'defrosted', and there seemed to be food defrosting already, so did that mean it needed to be frozen again?

I rarely assume things. I would not think twice about most typos, but I need as much precision as I can. It genuinely isn't intending to take the piss.

That's true, it might be "without"

But yeah, point is that deciphering what "witk" could possibly mean, in the grammatical context of a sentence where "witk" is almost certainly some kind of preposition (you don't need to know grammatical terminology for this to be helpful, just your natural language instinct), and in the semantic context of meals and their relationship to chips, is not the kind of MI6-level codebreaking task some are making it out to be. I guess you might need to stop for half a second to work it out, if you have cognitive differences or English is a second language or whatever. Still quicker than pedantic/puzzled text messaging.

There are two sorts of people in the world. Those who can extrapolate from an incomplete data set.

You never made a typo in your life?

Brilliant

Nobody answers phone calls any more though. It gives everyone anxiety, apparently. Instead they send texts with spelling mistakes, weird acronyms, initialisations and abbreviations. Which everyone around them is expected to accommodate.

This is just yet another MN thread making ND people feel like shit

Ohhhh, thanks. I'd missed that, but get it now.

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