Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
Bob La Quey wrote:
Sorry, but you are being far too narrow minded and simply lazy. There
is great value in attempting to understand those who may well be less
literate than you are.
Anyone who writes on a blog or a web page hardly qualifies as "less
literate."
Digging out the meaning need not destroy
your own ability to be articulate unless you let it do so.
Wrong.
Simply *reading* such a sentence begins the process of realigning your
probability connections. Reading it multiple times is worse.
Wrong.
I have this special ability to correct in my mind (on the fly) the
mistakes I see. I see the mistakes, but my mind hears the corrected
version. (And I'm betting that I'm not alone with this gift.)
These errors have *not* crept into my thinking. Thru deliberate
decisions, I have chosen to adopt conventions which I see as an
improvement, from minor and common spelling enhancements through
punctuation enhancements.
Reading mistakes multiple times allows me to figure out what it should
have been. And then I go back and read it once more, but this time
changing it (on the fly) to the way I think it should read.
Suddenly I have to proofread *my own* compositions for an error that I
never made before in my life.
Because you're not correcting the mistakes on the fly as you read.
I constantly proofread *my own* compositions for typos. I make typos
all the time. But I usually catch them as I make them. The fingers
just didn't feel quite right.
Proofreading is even more necessary when I change my mind in mid
sentence and go a different way. Most of the time, I catch everything
that needs to adjust for the change as I make the change. Tho often
enough, I don't, and proofreading my writing is then necessary to catch
them. And though I try, sometimes what I write doesn't flow well.
Proofreading usually catches this also. It is not uncommon for me to
proofread my emails several times before sending. Even then, I
sometimes find errors after I receive my copy back from kplug.
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It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
--Andrew Jackson
I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
--Mark Twain
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