Does your mind ever correct what you are reading?
By mommaj
@mommaj (23112)
United States
January 20, 2017 12:59pm CST
This is a problem that I have quite often. I sometimes read things that aren't actually written. The latest was your. I saw it as "you're" because that was the way it was being used. It was used incorrectly yet my mind changed it. I probably need an editor to look over my posts because now I wonder if I write things incorrectly and see them as correct.
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
31 Jan 17
Sometimes it does, but sometimes not!
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@mommaj (23112)
• United States
31 Jan 17
@PatZAnthony That's so true. I can easily get distracted unless I am reading a really good book. If I am reading the house could burn down around me and I wouldn't notice. 
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
31 Jan 17
@mommaj Maybe it depends on what is happening around us also.
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@dragon54u (31636)
• United States
20 Jan 17
Always. It's kind of irritating sometimes that I correct as I read a book that I'm supposed to be enjoying! I just can't help it. When I was in school back in the 60s and 70s my teachers pounded grammar and punctuation into us, almost literally! They all said that it was very important to know, that people would judge us by how we spoke and wrote, that we would fail or succeed in life depending on how we used good grammar and proper punctuation.
It's not like that anymore. Teachers are just happy if kids read a little and can print, nevermind the rest. 
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@mommaj (23112)
• United States
20 Jan 17
LOL. I completely agree that the teachers are not teaching grammar and punctuation as much. Then again, does it matter considering how ignorant everyone looks without fact checking?
I love Reader Digest books because of the grammar and stories.
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@mommaj (23112)
• United States
24 Jan 17
@ramapo17 Hope you had a great holiday and got to go up north some. We were in Va. for their first snow. Kids are so amazing. I loved how they stood in the snow and twirled around. My son kept saying snowman. He is autistic so I don't know if he thought snow was a snowman or he wanted to build one. His little eyes were so big with excitement though. It was awesome to see.
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@Tampa_girl7 (48958)
• United States
21 Jan 17
I know that I constantly make mistakes in my writing.
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@ramapo17 (30441)
• Melbourne, Florida
22 Jan 17
@Tampa_girl7 I do too but I try to catch them before pushing the send button. Sometimes I just don't see it. I think it happens with age.
Sounds like a good excuse to me.
Sounds like a good excuse to me.1 person likes this
@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
20 Jan 17
Yes, we all do that, mommaj. There is an article about that online somewhere. Let me see if I can find it. If I can, I will come back and edit the link into my response here.
I am glad you are back safe and sound, my dear!
Uhm... just as an FYI, I actually AM exactly the way I am on myLot in real life... I find it interesting you believe nobody is actually the way they present themselves here.
BRB!
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@mommaj (23112)
• United States
21 Jan 17
You silly goose! Now I know you are reading my responses in other places and you know I have no memory. 
I actually think I said most or maybe some and not EVERYONE.
I have to get off of here already this evening because people are just making me mad! I responded to someone's post and then someone else changed the discussion to something else we weren't talking about. I guess I am still just in a mood. LOL2 people like this
@mommaj (23112)
• United States
22 Jan 17
@DaddyEvil Oh good. Now you are stalking...
So we may never know what it means?
Guess that is the answer then. It means nothing. So, I guess I will go back to bed.
Oh good. Now you are stalking...So we may never know what it means? Guess that is the answer then. It means nothing. So, I guess I will go back to bed.2 people like this
@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
22 Jan 17
@mommaj Well, you didn't actually expect me to ignore everything you write on myLot, did you? I was in sishy mode for much of the day while looking around the site.
I DID find the article I was looking for, but it appears scientists are fighting over what it really means when we can read words where the letters are not where they belong. (The original email many of us received was actually a hoax. And THAT is funny in and of itself!)
I do hope you have a great day, mommaj! 
for much of the day while looking around the site.
I DID find the article I was looking for, but it appears scientists are fighting over what it really means when we can read words where the letters are not where they belong. (The original email many of us received was actually a hoax. And THAT is funny in and of itself!)
I do hope you have a great day, mommaj! 2 people like this
