I swear, I peck out one paragraph and look back and correct spelling mistakes, letters I left out, too many letters I put in, punctuation. Forty years of truck driving I didn't have to write much. i supoze mi righting skils hav deeminishet sumwat.
Minor rant.

Yup, the third time's the charm!

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Do you proofread your posts?

Yeez I does. Eeeevery timme.

Sometimes.

Yet when I return to the thread, I cannot believe I spelled something incorrectly.

The good news is, I appear to be in good company.

It’s a forum, not a doctoral thesis.

Why would eye spoof red pests?

Always.

I usually proof it once before posting, and then again after posting.

Mostly since I'm usually analyzing something or posting a news story which requires going back through it to fix editing mistakes.

I do. Probably 90% of my posts are edited for typos or clarity or to add thoughts.

It's amazing how often re-reading what I've posted illuminates errors.

My smell checker makes me say things I didn't Nintendo.

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Originally posted by Prefontaine:
It’s a forum, not a doctoral thesis.

My sixth grade teacher, Mrs. Ilg would smack your knuckles with a ruler!

Yes, but usually not to catch mistakes. Mostly to add things I thought of after posting, or thinking of a better way to say something.

Crazy how I can remember a scene from the Brady Bunch.
"You know what to do, but somehow it gets lost between here and here."

That comes to mind all the time when I re-read what I've written and am horrified by the grammatical mistakes, the screw ups of there, their and they're's and all the similar pitfalls of the English language. I know what I'm trying to say, but apparently my fingers are on autopilot and typing what they want. I also write words more than once, I constantly read back to find "and and" or "was was" or some such.

I've often wondered if it has something to do with dyslexia/dyscalculia. The other day at work an employee was standing at my desk and told me a room number or something and I wrote it down in front of them. They said 170 and I wrote 710. (I recognized it was wrong before I finished writing then 1.) They said "That's wrong" and I said "I know, but I can't help it, that's the way my brain works." My head said 170 and my fingers said 710.


^ and as I typed that, with the internal monolog saying it in my head as I typed, at the very end I said 710 in my head and typed 170 a second time.

I read it once posted & edit/correct then

Yes, but my hearing is not as good as it once was...

Yes, b/c I believe good writing & good communication are important skills. They're also perishable. It may seem over-simplistic, but you get better at writing by practicing good writing. Editing & proofreading are part of that practice.

Nearly every active member here grew up at a time when we had to do math w/o calculators and read a map. You look around these days, and the younger the person, the more reliant he is on spell/grammar check, AI, calculators, GPS navigation, etc. Doing math in your head is practically a superpower now to ppl under 30.

On top of that, I believe that practicing good writing is mentally stimulating and prevents cognitive decline.

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Originally posted by iron chef:
Doing math in your head is practically a superpower now to ppl under 30.

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Originally posted by iron chef:
Yes, b/c I believe good writing & good communication are important skills. They're also perishable. It may seem over-simplistic, but you get better at writing by practicing good writing. Editing & proofreading are part of that practice.

Nearly every active member here grew up at a time when we had to do math w/o calculators and read a map. You look around these days, and the younger the person, the more reliant he is on spell/grammar check, AI, calculators, GPS navigation, etc. Doing math in your head is practically a superpower now to ppl under 30.

On top of that, I believe that practicing good writing is mentally stimulating and prevents cognitive decline.

I would guess the vocabulary of a high school freshman sixty years ago is bigger than the average college grad today.
Your meal bill is twenty eight dollars and sixteen cents, hand them 28.41 and watch their eyes glaze over, tell them they owe two dollars change and they would probably hand it to you. lol. Then ask them Where's the pay phone.

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Originally posted by P250UA5:
I read it once posted & edit/correct then

^^^^^^^^
This.....

Yes. Sometimes, sort of…. But not nearly often enough nor closely enough.