My brain is going faster than my fingers when I'm composing. When I proofread, so many times my mind will just fill in the mistake. Even when I read it over and over. I fix the mistake in my mind and my eye doesn't see it.
Why It’s So Hard to Catch Your Own Typos
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It's funny because this is true of a lot of things, not just typos--the people who are seeing it with a new eye have a huge advantage over the person who it's closest to. Ever get a product, particularly an electronic or mechanical item, and within the first few minutes you can think of 5 things they could have made easier/done better? You wonder if they even tested the product before releasing it!
The same holds true for personal body odors. The nose is designed to seek out new odors-you get nose desensitized to odors. The reason a lot of older Americans do not recognize when they are not fresh, is that the nose is just not as sensitive.
Ha! But it's true! And I usually go back at least twice to edit my posts because I find typos. lolJust giving you a friendly teasing.
Forget what you've read or heard. It's a gnome dat causes them. See?
My computer thinks he is smarter than me and wants to change but he is almost always wrong. When i worked i worked in an official capacity writing things on the net i turned of the spelling check. It took up too much time with things that wasn't wrong but just unknown to it. Much faster when i wrote and proofread it. A colleague also read it before it went online. But ,of course, this was writing in swedish. I wouldn't be so bold in english.
...kind of personal hygiene typos then huh?....
That's why I started writing everything longhand again.
It also means that, when I come to type stuff up, the 'composing' part of my brain is passive. I might come up with the odd new word or sentence that better defines the meaning, but generally I'm focused on simply typing. It also helps that having to go back to the original handwritten text slows me down, thus reducing mistakes...and then I print it off, shove it in a drawer for a week or so, then go over it again.
...catching typos???....is there a daily bag limit????....or is it "catch & release"?....
