"Look! No eyes!" meme

From cuddled comes this meme - type without looking at the screen (and, I take it, without looking at the keyboard, either)

So, no typos will get fixed, and it'll just come out the way you wrote it. I imagine I'll do fairly well, since while I don't use 10 fingers, I can touch-type simply by virtue of having used keyboards since I was in fourth grade, so my muscle memory knows wheter the keys are. I think.

It does help that my keyboard has little knobs on the f and j keys. I'm not sure what the keys are TBH but I know that my index fingers rest on them :)

Sometimes my muscle memory is also interesting in that I type something, know immediately that it's wrong, and hit backspace to delete them and correct. Might have been better not to type that in the first place, wouldn't you think? Yet it happens.

Babble, babble... this has been fairly content-free. Oh, I went to Institute last night with Stella, and we talked about Isaiah.

The sun is shining, and I have work toto do. Not much (a day or two worth), but still.

Have a nice day everyone!

(PS: I did it with my eyes closed, as that seemed the simplest way to ensure that I don't look at anything.

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Eschew obfuscation

I read this in the Niue News recently:

Say That Again: Veteran language experts on Niue are reported to be struggling to translate some complex phrases used in the draft copy of Niue Foou or A New Niue - Cyclone Recovery Plan. Examples of difficult English to Niuean translations cited: "the impact on terrestrial biodiversity...substantial mortality of native species.. non state actors...society is interwoven ... needs in a holistic manner...prioritisation and costing...bullet point summary... internally displaced population...robust regimes.. costed development activities...our society is divided in to portfolios, departments and villages..." The draft report was reportedly compiled with experience from the cyclone Heta recovery committee, the economic development and planning unit, New Zealand's Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management and the United Nations Development Programme.

To me, what this says, more than anything else, is that the people drawing up the original English version of the document appear to have used language that is far more obfuscated than necessary—typically bureaucratical buzzword-dropping. "needs in a holistic manner", in particular, sounds more as if the person wanted to sound grand than that he wanted to get a meaning across. Feh.