I tend to agree. But even though I have a degree in English literature and creative writing, and have worked as a journalist and editor, I still have a few things that I routinely mess up. My thing is: sometimes a word gets double letters in certain forms. Run / running. Got / gotten. But this doesn’t always happen. Walk / walking. There are however some forms of some words where I can’t remember what is correct to do. I’ve gotten it wrong and been corrected. I’ve gotten it right and second guessed myself. Both of those have happened so many times that I can no longer keep it all straight.
So I have some compassion perhaps for people who screw up to/too because they’re caught in a false mneumonic dilemma. (There’s a good example of my trouble with double letters, by the way - I always type “dilemma”).
I swear in some cases it’s more of a pathology and less just mere ignorance.
Huh. I have this issue too. I think the difference is that you (it seems) and I do stop, check, and try to get it right. I have looked up words know how to spell just to make sure I spell them correctly.
Pressing send on anything longer than a tweet without checking for some basic grammar and spelling seems crazy to me.
Confuses to, two and too.
Also their, there and they’re
Dyslexia hell though
I tend to agree. But even though I have a degree in English literature and creative writing, and have worked as a journalist and editor, I still have a few things that I routinely mess up. My thing is: sometimes a word gets double letters in certain forms. Run / running. Got / gotten. But this doesn’t always happen. Walk / walking. There are however some forms of some words where I can’t remember what is correct to do. I’ve gotten it wrong and been corrected. I’ve gotten it right and second guessed myself. Both of those have happened so many times that I can no longer keep it all straight.
So I have some compassion perhaps for people who screw up to/too because they’re caught in a false mneumonic dilemma. (There’s a good example of my trouble with double letters, by the way - I always type “dilemma”).
I swear in some cases it’s more of a pathology and less just mere ignorance.
Huh. I have this issue too. I think the difference is that you (it seems) and I do stop, check, and try to get it right. I have looked up words know how to spell just to make sure I spell them correctly.
Pressing send on anything longer than a tweet without checking for some basic grammar and spelling seems crazy to me.
Many moons ago I had an old high school classmate add me on Facebook. They listed their religious beliefs as “Too each there own”.
come on! that’s two mean! their not doing anything wrong they’re
this hurt to type
That’s they’re choice.
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