Remember this? I am sure you do... because you were the first one to show it to me... years and years and years ago. Can I admit something to you? When you first showed this too me, I didn't notice that ANY of the words were misspelled until halfway through the paragraph.
I was so embarrassed by they... "Wow" I thought "I must be the world's worst speller." Because after a second look the words are so badly misspelled, how could I NOT see that right away?!?!?
Even now at work, my boss will point out my mistakes and ask me what I am going to do it prevent it. I say "I will try to pay more attention." But the truth is that I don't EVEN SEE the mistakes. My eyes glide right over them... not punctuation mistakes, not capitalization mistakes... not grammar mistakes... just spelling.
Last night I met this very nice lady and we got on the topic of grammatical errors etc. etc... and I admitted to her that I was a very bad speller and I always had been. She said to me "You that probably means you are a better reader!" "Really? Why do you say that?" She explained that she studied linguistics in schools and one of her classes studied the different way people read. Some people really DO look at the shape of the word, or the WHOLE word at once. In fact SOME people read several words at once! They are the faster, more coherent readers.... and the WORST spellers!
YEAH BABY! there is some redeeming qualities to those of us who are hopeless spellers!
In fact... this makes me so happy I might post in on my other blog, and my facebook, and my front door....
Ha. There is definitely truth to that. When Chris has me read his papers for school to look for errors, I have to totally block my mind to the content, otherwise I get interested in the paper and start reading it the way I read a book (by looking at the word shape, etc.) and I end up missing his errors. It's hard to do
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