[General] A typographist?

[Silverobama]

I don't remember clearly but I am pretty sure I once read a thread here in our forum, a native speaker used a word looks like "a typographist" or something to describe someone who usually makes typos.

I guess that word isn't a word at all but the native speaker made it up for fun. However, it makes perfect sense. I wonder if there is a word for someone who usually makes typo. If so, what is it?

 

[Rover_KE]

Piscean calls himself 'Typoman'.

 

[Silverobama]

Piscean calls himself 'Typoman'.

Much appreciated, Rover. Is "typoman" the only possible word? I remember at that time someone called you a "typo...ist", but I can't find that thread.

Anyway, I appreciate your help.

 

[emsr2d2]

Much appreciated, Rover. Is "typoman" the only possible word? I remember at that time someone called you a "typo...ist", but I can't find that thread.

Anyway, I appreciate your help.

If you look at Piscean's signature line, you'll see the explanation. It's not a commonly used word - it was a pun. It's not impossible but I doubt anyone would have used "typographist". It doesn't really work because it sounds like they meant "typographer" but got the wrong word. Also, don't forget that "typo" isn't just a shortened form of "typography/typographer/typographical" - it's a shortened form of "typographical mistake/error".

 

[jutfrank]

We recently gave Piscean a blood test to see if we could find the cause of the problem. Turned out he was Typo positive.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

A person who works type professionally is a typographer. There's no such thing as a typographist.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Much appreciated, Rover. Is "typoman" the only possible word? . . .

Yes, it's the only possible word.

As mentioned above, it's a joke.

Typoman tells us he's a superhero, like Batman, Superman, Spiderman, and so on.

And what are superheros? Crime stoppers. Agents of justice. Righters of wrongs.

Typoman's super-power is his ability to make typos. He writes things wrong. He's a writer of rongs. (That's wrong spelled wrong.)

Get it? Righter of wrongs versus writer of rongs.

So if the name were something else (like Typographist), he wouldn't be a superhero, and it wouldn't be funny.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

He is also being a superhero as a righter of wrongs - another pun.

Oops. Thanks. That's what I meant. I just corrected it.

I need a nap.

 

[Silverobama]

I'm a typophile.

Much appreciated, CB, for your explanation about the "righters of rongs". I like puns and I often read puns online.

But how can I understand the above one written by Piscean? I know "file" sounds the same as "phile", but I don't think this one is a pun.

 

[GoesStation]

But how can I understand the above one written by Piscean? I know "file" sounds the same as "phile", but I don't think this one is a pun.

It's not. "Phile" is a rather complicated suffix. Its simplest meaning is "lover of", but it can also mean "frequent perpetrator of". In hemophilia ("hæmophilia" in British English), it means "attraction to" in a very broad sense.

 

[Tarheel]

The suffix "phile" means a person who is a lover of something. For example, an ailurophile is a lover of cats. An anglophile is a lover of all things English. You can probably find a list of words with the "phile" suffix.

(Goes is right, of course, but I was thinking of "phile" in terms of being the opposite of "phobia".)

 

[GoesStation]

"Phobia" is also complicated. An old word for "rabies" is hydrophobia. It was so called because rabies sufferers develop an aversion to water and other liquids.

 

[Rover_KE]

You can probably find a list of words with the "phile" suffix.

Here's one (and that's just the first of eight pages. Simplify it by clicking common words).