Frequently making typos/bad proofreading, how common is this?

That proof-reading and copy-editing are jobs (complete with specialised niches) is evidence you're not alone, with stuff like Grammarly still nowhere near ready to replace them.
 
All the time, anything I post I have to go over it several times before I hit REPLY and then I read it again and have to press the EDIT button.
I can however proof read like an expert with other peoples posts.
Yesterday my mates released a new music video with lyrics hardcoded and I have never seen such a bad example of every line having a spelling mistake. Even the chorus features the word 'psychodelic' several times. I need to tell them.
 
I thought I was the only pensioner on here - I used to be very good at spelling but even easy words flummox me (I did spell check Flummox) if it's wrong it wasnt me.
 
SexyGreyFox said:
Yesterday my mates released a new music video with lyrics hardcoded and I have never seen such a bad example of every line having a spelling mistake. Even the chorus features the word 'psychodelic' several times. I need to tell them.
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Drives me mad, especially in professional lyric videos. Some of them are very expensive as well, and then they ruin it with a schoolboy spelling error.
 
Feek said:
I sometimes find I miss words when I type. In my head, I know exactly what I meant to type but when I read it back, I've just missed one word.
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I do this too and it's not an age thing as I first spotted it in 1999 when I got my first PC. I can touch type btw because I was using electronic typewriters / older computers before a PC.

E.g.

It was very of you to do this. The word I missed out was 'nice'.

As per quoted post, it's in my head that it's what I have written and that is what I see when I write it too, only to realise after it is too late because the email has been sent.
 
You know, my sister is a writer and due to lack of money she can't hire a professional editor. So she proof-reads her books herself. And she says that even after 8th or even 9th check there are still typos and punctuation mistakes. I guess programs like Grammarly will be useful in this case as they will be much fewer omissions ever made here. Alternatively you can still review the chance to hire a professional corrector, but I tell you straight, these services won't be cheap.
 
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A lot of the self-published books on Kindle have clearly never seen the eye of an editor - my dad loves the free or dirt-cheap ones and then moans about spelling/grammar errors...:rolleyes:

Happens because the easiest person to fool is yourself; not just things like confirmation bias or inaccurate memories of an event - your actual sensory input itself can be unreliable whether it’s visual tricks like patterns that seem to move when you focus on them, the brain filling in words you forgot to actually type in a sentence but read aloud in your head, or phenomena like inattentional blindness (see the famous invisible dancing gorilla experiment). Only human!
 
Somnambulist said:
A lot of the self-published books on Kindle have clearly never seen the eye of an editor - my dad loves the free or dirt-cheap ones and then moans about spelling/grammar errors...:rolleyes:

Happens because the easiest person to fool is yourself; not just things like confirmation bias or inaccurate memories of an event - your actual sensory input itself can be unreliable whether it’s visual tricks like patterns that seem to move when you focus on them, the brain filling in words you forgot to actually type in a sentence but read aloud in your head, or phenomena like inattentional blindness (see the famous invisible dancing gorilla experiment). Only human!
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Agree. And it sad that the British version of Amazon seems to have more problem with that than it's American branch. By the way once I saw a really great book there that was being distributed for just 1£ and that book was much better then some of those I'd bought. With a free book at least you don't have that ugly feeling that the author was having you from behind with his or her graphomaniac stuff.
 
My spelling was fairly good until a year ago. However, I got rather seriously ill in hospital. I don't recall much of it but I survived and I was discharged about eight weeks later. One of the down sides was my my reduced ability to remember words, often quite simple ones. The term is Aphasia. I have had, and continue to have, speech therapy. This has helped but I still struggle at times. Some words are a complete blank so I have to use alternatives. Just typing this has been a challenge.

So, for those afflicted with this frustrating ailment, it could be worse.
 
Graetzbridge said:
My spelling was fairly good until a year ago. However, I got rather seriously ill in hospital. I don't recall much of it but I survived and I was discharged about eight weeks later. One of the down sides was my my reduced ability to remember words, often quite simple ones. The term is Aphasia. I have had, and continue to have, speech therapy. This has helped but I still struggle at times. Some words are a complete blank so I have to use alternatives. Just typing this has been a challenge.

So, for those afflicted with this frustrating ailment, it could be worse.
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Damn, hope that improves for you quickly.

Last time I had major surgery I had a really heavy brain fog for months - I was on the verge of being referred to a neurologist but thankfully it suddenly lifted. It was probably the anaesthetic in my case but I remember being pretty scared that I'd never get back to "normal".
 
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