This happens to me a lot. It is always a result of fat fingers on the phone or spell/grammar check. On the phone the backspace is right above the return button and it is often the reason.

Happens to me all the time. I relentlessly proof-read and edit to keep on top of it.

It happens to me all the time. It's 100% me, not an anomaly of the forum software or anything. I just think faster than I type sometimes.

I also have a few things that happen often that are hardware failures. My spell check has a habit of changing a few of my common misstypes into completely unrelated words.

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Originally posted by 12131:
I initially wrote, "Yeah, I would call a bean bag a piece of furniture", but, an hour later, I went back and spotted the word "not" missing, which completely changes the intended meaning.

I'm confused. You say you originally posted "I would call a beanbag a piece of furniture." The word "not" isn't in that sentence that you say you originally posted. Then you say you went back into the thread and the word "not" wasn't in it???

The one I hate is on my phone when sending a text...I'll pound out a reply, glance, it looks good, hit send and right before it disappears spell check changes something

This is another example of where I want a Warning and not the 'system' automatically taking action.

When I misspell something, warn me rather than type in something that I didn't intend. I have a love/hate relationship w/ my phone spell checker. Sometimes it makes it easier, sometimes is just annoying and making wrong corrections or corrections that aren't needed.

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Getting old sucks!!

This 100%. I've had to get better at proofing quick texts and emails in work world....

I attribute it to my remarkably fast brain.

I've always had an issue of thinking one word and my fingers type a completely different word with the correct spelling so it's not like I just fat finger something. Like my brain is saying 'the' and my fingers type 'what'. I can't explain it. *shrug*

I know this has happened to me on occasion. Seems more often than not these days.

I used to be very vigilant in my grammar and spelling, but have become more lax as I get older. I can write some of it off due to software (spellcheck, grammar check) as the culprit. But that is only about 30-50% of the time. The rest, is my brain playing tricks and filling in the missing words in my thoughts as I type. I would be 100% sure I typed everything I had been thinking, only to see the carnage that was put on paper later.

I do try to proofread more these days, but sometimes I just say F it.

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Originally posted by mojojojo:

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Originally posted by 12131:
I initially wrote, "Yeah, I would call a bean bag a piece of furniture", but, an hour later, I went back and spotted the word "not" missing, which completely changes the intended meaning.

I'm confused. You say you originally posted "I would call a beanbag a piece of furniture." The word "not" isn't in that sentence that you say you originally posted. Then you say you went back into the thread and the word "not" wasn't in it???

Yes, the original post should have had the "not" in it for the intended meaning. But, the word was left out (brain fart). I had to go back and added it. Hence, the edit you see.

Or it could be the most annoying computer virus ever released. Not destructive enough to trigger antivirus software, randomly deleting words entered into text boxes, possibly randomly deleting keystrokes. Just done to make the user think they are insane. Computer virus gas lighting. Brilliant. Or it could just be nothing.

When this happens to me, I just blame jhe888.

Because, hey, lawyer.

I have the same problem; more with my phone than my computer; computer puts a redline under bad spelling; phone just "fixes" things with autocorrect which often isn't.

I have this problem. Sometimes it's not a brain fart, sometimes it's a problem with my work laptop, when it's connected to the company vpn. I've watched stuff I've typed disappear before my old eyes. It can be frustrating. "modern" devices get more complicated all the time, with excessive amounts of trackers, drivers, checkers, application shenanigans, shit popping up and blocking your typing to a new focus, malware, shitware, who-knows-what-ware, spyware, man in the middle, top, bottom, and sideways attacks etc. Ever heard of "Surveyance Capitalism" ? Somewhere between 100% to 110% of every key you type is tracked, used, manipulated, or worse. The way software is written and published these days, with sometimes zero quality control of any kind, I wouldn't put anyhing past anything. I've been programming for a long time, and I've never seen such poor quality in systems and applications that I see these days. So I'm not completely on board with old man syndrome. The latter is what it is, but I'm not convinced it explains everything the way most are suggesting here.

Aww, you all are loghtweights! Not only do I leave out words, I’m starting to make basic typing mistakes that I haven’t made since I learned how to type.

AND, I misspell the same words almost every time I type tgem. (SEE!) “The” is always typed “tge.

Gettin’ old ain’t for sissies.

And don’t get me started on forgetting words!

It's gremlins in the wires. Usually they just steal and eat a few electrons here or there and no one notices. But sometimes a gremlin gets a little too big, a little too greedy and entire words and letters disappear. And sometimes after eating too much, a gremlin will get a little sick from over eating and will vomit back up words as gibberish.

>>> COVFEFE <<<

I notice often there are others making the entry "that" rather 'than' ; it IS a common mistake for me to make, yet far too often typed when obvious word intended was 'than'.

Others common words, not misspellings or apostrophe artifacts, is a duplication of some low level word such as 'the' or 'if' or 'then'. Sometimes I'm SURE I entered only one word but upon reading the post itself, discover some secret verbal indicator of further brain rot....