Posted: Mar 11, 2017 10:12 am
Fallible wrote:I often make these mistakes when I'm typing. Just yesterday I wrote a post which contained 'there' instead of 'their', and a grocers' apostrophe in the word 'minds'. These errors were also immediately adjacent to each other in the sentence. As we know, I'm considered to be a pain when it comes to grammar, spelling and punctuation (it caused a visceral reaction in me akin to that which one might experience having alighted upon a shocking image on google when I saw my mistakes), and yet I can still make these fundamental errors unless I check my output before submitting. I cling to the hope that much of the upsetting illiteracy I witness is actually down to carelessness...which, come to think of it, I'm not sure is much better.
You must love twitter.
Coming across shocking images in google is a common source of mental trauma these days that no one had to contend with much before, though it was somewhat common at my house if I dared to peruse some of my dad's medical books and publications, yuck, shivvers, puke. With google, I've become fairly adept at not seeing what is right in front of me, the same with all the ads, it's almost like they're not there. I think the brain is steering me away, in a way that keeps the crap from registering consciously. Whatever it's doing, it's pretty efficient, but far from 100%, there's just too many things you can't unsee that pop up on our monitors all the fucking time.