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12/03/06 04:14
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#128874 - Magic
Responding to: ???'s previous message
Ralph said:
I notice when I type posts I leave out little words.

That's quite normal. Interestingly, when quickly reading the text afterwards, you won't detect most of mistakes, right? Only after a longer break, you will find them when reading the text again.

The reason for this is: When formulating a text, you have the text in your short-time memory. Reading only a few words is enough and your brain is immediately adding all the rest words, because you exactly know what you wrote.

Some months ago we had a thread with a link to a magic reading test: You were asked to read a text very fast in order to detect a few prepared mistakes. After reading the text you were asked how many mistakes you did find. The interesting result: Dozens of these little words were missing but weren't detected by you at all. Only the prepared mistakes were found.

I once noticed, that I make such typing mistakes like you, means these missing little words and that I cannot detect most of them, even if I try to read the text carefully in order to correct it. But if I send the same text to me as e-mail and read it again I will find them immediately. This only works, if the text is differently displayed on the screen, means if the words are displayed at other locations, due to a changed line length, for instance.

Kai


List of 32 messages in thread
TopicAuthorDate
Errors when typing post            01/01/70 00:00      
   Its because            01/01/70 00:00      
   Pardon?            01/01/70 00:00      
      Yes Andy            01/01/70 00:00      
         Explain...            01/01/70 00:00      
            Hard Return v Soft Return            01/01/70 00:00      
               You are right            01/01/70 00:00      
                  your spelling hasn't improved, though            01/01/70 00:00      
                     So, why don't you stop misspelling regards?            01/01/70 00:00      
                        Actually, he has            01/01/70 00:00      
   Magic            01/01/70 00:00      
      Preview            01/01/70 00:00      
         Exactly!            01/01/70 00:00      
      More CRC for the brain.            01/01/70 00:00      
         Amazing!            01/01/70 00:00      
            You can check for spelling in reverse too            01/01/70 00:00      
               LINT for forum posts...?            01/01/70 00:00      
                  a spell-checker would be enough!            01/01/70 00:00      
                     No, it wouldn\'t            01/01/70 00:00      
                        grammar/syntax checking is lagging behind            01/01/70 00:00      
                           Yes            01/01/70 00:00      
                              Yes, that\'s an important point            01/01/70 00:00      
                                 Teachers            01/01/70 00:00      
                        spell-checkers for losers            01/01/70 00:00      
                           It's called a syntax error ...            01/01/70 00:00      
                              since the thread is "Errors when typing post"            01/01/70 00:00      
                                 Many governments have "sin tax"            01/01/70 00:00      
                                    Latest "Sin Tax"            01/01/70 00:00      
            I guess I'm too pedantic!            01/01/70 00:00      
               A necessary trait?            01/01/70 00:00      
   How much age matters?            01/01/70 00:00      
      Off-topic            01/01/70 00:00      

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