It's not a typo, you just wrote it wrong

[Trills]

A typo is when your brain knows what you wanted to write but your fingers got it wrong.

"teh" instead of "the", for example

or "it'sn ot" when you meant to write "it's not"

If you spell something wrong or use the wrong word when there's no plausible way that your fingers could have done it on their own, it's not a typo.

Muphry's Law seems to be in force on this thread!

It's not a 'typo'. You chose the wrong word.

yes, typing their instead of there is not a typo, it's cos you don't know the difference.

i do teh for the a lot...my fingers are too quick. :o

THanks for the wrong / wrongly comments. I was genuinely asking, English is not my first language but I am always aiming to improve it, this is important to me.

I always thought you used the adverb, but I can see why you used the other word. Is it like "literaly license" as we say in my language?

The problem with that is that if I used poetic license people automatically correct me because I have an accent

Surely the issue is complicated - much depends on the type of keyboard, predictive text, stubby fingers, time constraints and purpose/ audience of the text.

When typing on my phone, in a hurry, I can make some bizarre 'typos', wrong words substituted by the phone and mistakes due not to spelling but typing, missing the letter I am aiming for then not noticing til I press send. That can be difficult to distinguish from not being able to spell but is, in my opinion still typo's and can be missed at a glance before posting. My phone keeps substituting "I" for "is" which gives me the rage, still can not work out how to stop it I just have to proof read very carefully.

So I don't agree that "you just wrote it wrong" is easy to distinguish these days.

"is" should be "they are" - I did "wrote it wrong"!

I assume you mean grammatical errors.
There instead of their
Bare with me
That kind of thing.

I agree in principle but I know I have fired off emails without properly concentrating.
I KNOW what it should be but for some reason by brain has decided to type the wrong thing and I've hit send without a proof read.

I think it's more complicated. Is a typo is a slip of a key, or typing the wrong word entirely due to lack of concentration?

I did get a hand written note once with a number I had to call. The number didn't work so when I asked the person who left the note they said it must be a typo.
That made me laugh (silently to myself).

It should be wrongly, you wouldn't write, 'they wrote it incorrect' would you?

As I always say to my children, adverbs.

It's mostly homophones which are the problem, isn't it? I once (for some unaccountable reason) read a motoring piece in the Guardian which consistently used 'breaks' instead of 'brakes'. I know they were infamous for their typos but you'd think a newspaper could employ a proofreader or journalists who didn't make idiotic mistakes in the first place. A spellchecker is useful but insufficient for published material.

OP: wrong is an adjective.
You have used an adjective (wrong) to describe a verb (wrote).
You have written incorrectly. You wrote it incorrectly.
You used the wrong word.

Aha! I knew in my gut that Trills was right about her sentence! Go and look up 'wrong' in a (proper) dictionary - it is in fact both an adjective and an adverb (the latter being synonymous with 'wrongly'). So "I wrote it wrong" is in fact 100% totally grammatically correct. He word 'incorrect', however, is only an adjective, so that's why saying "I wrote it incorrect" sounds... incorrect.

I don't think its just gay people that are the problem.

As I always say to my children, adverbs. Why do you always say adverbs to your children? Surely they also need other parts of speech?

In these days of autocorrect I'm not sure I always agree now OP.

My phone is DETERMINED to put rogue apostrophes on plural days of the week making them possessive. I know they shouldn't be but sometimes you just can't fight the damn autocorrect.

I don't think its just gay people that are the problem.
What?

Lol at the problematic gay people.
does anyone else's phone make them I'll a lot? That one drives me mad.

Is homophonophobia a thing?

Thanks Eolian

I am also rather pleased to claim Bluebell's "literary license".

museumum perhaps your phone wishes to tell you that Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child full of grace, etc...

Are other people's errors the only thing that make you feel better than other people, or is there more of this shit?

No probs Trills. Rather embarrassingly I was telling ds (8) about the wrong/wrongly thing (he likes that kind of stuff - born pedant). I asked him which he thought was right and he said "Both. Wrong is an adverb and an adjective". Oookay then. The new KS2 Spag teaching is obviously working then.

All kinds of shit make me feel good, thanks for asking.

A wide variety of shit, in fact.

If you don't want to discuss the difference between a typo and a misspelling or a wrong choice of word, Pedant's Corner might not be the place you want to hang out.

I love you all

That is all.

Impressed with KS2!

I wasn't taught the names of parts of speech until we started to learn foreign languages. I blame Thatcher.

Actually, it is not all.

I agree with Trills and Eolian re the wrong/wrongly thing.
Writing wrongly refers to the actual action of writing being wrong (adjective), whereas in Trills' context, it's wrong

Yy to selfie/out of context etc.

Typos, hm... I am sitting on the fence on that one.
I do the whole 'teh' thing rather a lot and I agree that that is a typo in its purest form.
Misspelling something like, say, batleship with one t may be a spelling mistake (ignorance of correct spelling) or hasty typing.
Getting confused between their/there/they're may be due to ignorance of the correct grammar or due to just putting the first thing down that came to my fingers without stopping to think about context....
I do actually know the rules (I often on MN type 'now' when I mean 'know', or 'how' when I mean 'who' ), but as threads move so fast and my fingers type faster than my brain moves... well... something's godda give.
That's my excuse and I am going to stick to it.

I love you lot - have I already mentioned that?!