Reading what you think is there!

That was a very interesting post vegansrock It can be read at the same speed as normal too!
I was convinced I would stumble over some words but somehow it all made sense.
Fascinating.

Juliet27,

My Mum used to write us a letter every week when we first married, bless her, it was one long sentence, no punctuation at all!
I saw Pointless last night and read orgasm instead of organism in one definition!!

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

I was a Saturday girl in the Co-op in my teens - working on hosiery. Can’t remember how many times I was asked for 2 pairs of black man’s socks!

There’s currently a thread, ‘Cabinet Infighting’. I keep reading it as Cabin Infighting and I have glorious visions of airline pilots in a pistols-at-dawn situation in the aisle of the First Class cabin.

I won’t read the thread in case it shatters my dreams.

I read what I thought was there in a post yesterday and missed the subtle and clever real meaning entirely.
As soon as I woke up this morning I got it and thought Duh!
My brain must have worked it out in my sleep.

I do tend to notice typos but they don’t bother me at all, as long as the post makes sense. I used to correct my own posts if I noticed an error afterwards, but don’t do it these days. We all make mistakes and we’re not writing exam pieces here.

Correcting other people’s posts is very rude. As for pm-ing you about it, Charleygirl, words fail me!

Paris in the the Spring.

tinafl, It's annoying when that happens. I know I've corrected the predictive text and yet my correction gets overridden. Sometimes I've made a correction more than once but no the the computer seems to think it's correct and I'm not.

Typos and spelling mistakes don't bother me. Not everyone can spell every word and typos are an easy slip of a finger. I read on. It's the sense of a post that matters I think, whether it's comprehensible or not.

Septimia

Love it, sodapop! I was thinking of the headline which said that an elderly man had been hit by a car crossing the road with a walking aid....

It reminds me of the joke I read in a very old joke book when I was a child - 'For Sale: piano by elderly lady with Queen Anne legs"

I don't worry about other people's spelling etc. but do not like all the abbreviations ( other than those listed on GN ) which they assume everyone understands.

Just read a real corker Septimia in a book not on GN

" the headless child's doll" referring to a broken doll.

The inventor of predictive text just died
His funfair is next monkey

It's all too easy to make mistakes when typing comments on GN, just as in text messages. I think it's a place to be forgiving.

On the other hand, I spend a lot of time complaining about typos etc in kindle books and reporting them because I think they should have been dealt with before publication, electronic or otherwise.

I am partially sighted and can cope provided paragraphs are used. When I see the equivalent of a page of A4 without a break I am afraid I have to let it go.

Spelling does grate but I would never be so rude as one GNer who sent me a really rude PM for a typo.

I just wondered what Boris was doing in Islington

Glad it’s not just me then Sodapop,

25Avalon you’re right re predictive text sometimes I will correct mine and when I look at what I have posted it’s still
reads as the predictive text why !!!

The spelling mistakes jump out at me in such an annoying way that I often have no idea what was in the post.Loose and where/were really irritate me but I agree with farmer, shoplifters etc which can be quite amusing.

sodapop

I have often read thread titles then on opening up the thread its something completely different.

On the "sprouting" theme one of my daughters called eyebrows "eyesprouts" quite apt really.

Off topic. It one of my grandchildren called them “eyebrowns.”

Some of it is down to damn stupid predictive text. Often I can’t be bothered to go back and correct if it makes sense.

??? downtoearth, that’s the sort of thing I do,

I have often read thread titles then on opening up the thread its something completely different.

On the "sprouting" theme one of my daughters called eyebrows "eyesprouts" quite apt really.

phoenix I read your thread " Mr P has surpassed himself" very quickly and saw " Mr p has just pissed himself" until I looked again