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June 13th 19, 09:47 PM
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Ken Springer wrote:
As time goes by, it gets harder and harder for me to see those mistakes. By "see", I actually mean *see* the mistake. For instance, if the word "saved" is in the text, and the font and size of the text is the right physical size, when I focus my eyes on the "v", I do not see the trailing "ed". :-( No matter how many times you may proof your own writing, your eyes (brain) tend to see what you expect to see. You know what you meant to write, so that's what you tend to see. Many posters never review what they wrote before hitting the Send button. 
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June 14th 19, 02:58 AM
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On 6/13/19 2:47 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
Ken Springer wrote: As time goes by, it gets harder and harder for me to see those mistakes. By "see", I actually mean *see* the mistake. For instance, if the word "saved" is in the text, and the font and size of the text is the right physical size, when I focus my eyes on the "v", I do not see the trailing "ed". :-( No matter how many times you may proof your own writing, your eyes (brain) tend to see what you expect to see. You know what you meant to write, so that's what you tend to see. Exactly. I tell people this all the time. Not only do you see what you expect to see, you apply the meaning you are trying to convey, but the text may convey a different meaning to a reader. Many posters never review what they wrote before hitting the Send button. -- Ken MacOS 10.14.5 Firefox 67.0 Thunderbird 60.7 "My brain is like lightning, a quick flash and it's gone!"
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June 14th 19, 07:08 PM
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On 6/13/19 3:47 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
[snip] No matter how many times you may proof your own writing, your eyes (brain) tend to see what you expect to see. You know what you meant to write, so that's what you tend to see. Many posters never review what they wrote before hitting the Send button. Yes. I'm trying to do better with my posts, and they have improved. A few strange typos still get through at times. -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "The existence of God is inconsistent with the classical big bang theory." Quentin Smith, "Atheism, Theism and Big Bang Cosmology"
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