I hate misspellings. My brain doesn’t think they’re misspellings, and tries to figure out what the words mean. For instance, “it’s” means “it is”, so whenever someone mistakenly uses a contraction when they don’t mean to, I’ll read it as written and be confused. “The dog buried it’s bone” to my mind becomes “the dog buried it is bone”, and I’ll stumble over it as I try to parse the actual meaning of the sentence rather than realise what the writer intended.
Yesterday’s The Other Coast comic had a line that read, “His ship, the Arr Billy, was was caught in a terrible storm and Teddy was washed overboard.” That one tripped me up. Other people get earworms from music — I get phrases like “was was” repeating in my head for hours.
I have a simple mind with complicated problems. ;p
A typo isn’t quite the same as a spelling mistake. I frequently trip over the typing of words that I know perfectly well how to spell. I sometimes wonder what difference a Dvorak keyboard would make.
It is funny how certain words seem to cause us to slip up. For some reason, the word “remember” almost always gets me, I can’t stop with the "m"s and "e"s… ☺
P. S. “I look forward to reading it!” is a good, funny line…
Algolei I over 4 years ago
I hate misspellings. My brain doesn’t think they’re misspellings, and tries to figure out what the words mean. For instance, “it’s” means “it is”, so whenever someone mistakenly uses a contraction when they don’t mean to, I’ll read it as written and be confused. “The dog buried it’s bone” to my mind becomes “the dog buried it is bone”, and I’ll stumble over it as I try to parse the actual meaning of the sentence rather than realise what the writer intended.
Yesterday’s The Other Coast comic had a line that read, “His ship, the Arr Billy, was was caught in a terrible storm and Teddy was washed overboard.” That one tripped me up. Other people get earworms from music — I get phrases like “was was” repeating in my head for hours.
I have a simple mind with complicated problems. ;p
Nuliajuk over 4 years ago
A typo isn’t quite the same as a spelling mistake. I frequently trip over the typing of words that I know perfectly well how to spell. I sometimes wonder what difference a Dvorak keyboard would make.
ChessPirate over 4 years ago
It is funny how certain words seem to cause us to slip up. For some reason, the word “remember” almost always gets me, I can’t stop with the "m"s and "e"s… ☺
P. S. “I look forward to reading it!” is a good, funny line…
ekke over 4 years ago
Who is this Miss Pelling, anyway?