I do.
The way my brain works, I digest entire paragraphs or pages of information in one go, rather than read words sequentially. On one hand, it’s a bit of a super-power: I can read and process things very quickly compared to most others. Hooray!
But it’s also a super-failure, because my mind often changes the specific phrasing of what I’m thinking mid-sentence… leading to tons of grammatical errors, duplicated words or missing short words (a, to, the etc.) as I type which my brain can’t immediately spot. This is compounded because I always know what I meant… so my error rate is very high. This often makes me look like a right derp-squad champion, unless I laboriously proofread. If you ever see me making edits to my posts long after the posting date/time, this is why - I’ve re-read and thought “wtf there’s missing words… that makes no sense
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Anyone else? Confess your reading / typing herp-derp habits here!
The way my brain works, I digest entire paragraphs or pages of information in one go, rather than read words sequentially. On one hand, it’s a bit of a super-power: I can read and process things very quickly compared to most others. Hooray!
But it’s also a super-failure, because my mind often changes the specific phrasing of what I’m thinking mid-sentence… leading to tons of grammatical errors, duplicated words or missing short words (a, to, the etc.) as I type which my brain can’t immediately spot. This is compounded because I always know what I meant… so my error rate is very high. This often makes me look like a right derp-squad champion, unless I laboriously proofread. If you ever see me making edits to my posts long after the posting date/time, this is why - I’ve re-read and thought “wtf there’s missing words… that makes no sense
”Anyone else? Confess your reading / typing herp-derp habits here!
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