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I have just seen a post on FB that caused me to laugh out loud - much to the disgust of my trying-to-stay-asleep partner! The author of the post was looking back over the years to events that happened on the 10th August.
I copy and paste the relevant sentence here: "I'd really love to relive those days all over again for sedimental reasons but also to live each day a whole lot smarter than we did before."
Maybe she was used to lying on the bottom?
Another I spotted recently was "inner continental" when talking about a flight from the US to Europe.
And then there was "fax scene" (rather than 'vaccine').
Cheers
Joolz
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Maybe?
Maybe just a stick in the mud.
Sophie
I think if you look at the source
Of most of these 'phonetic' errors they originate in an area some distance to the west of your location. There are plenty of posts on this site for example that suffer in this way.
It's certainly not predictive errors in most cases and it can be anything from 'pon pons', i'm sure that's a simple case of never being corrected to your more serious examples. If you don't know it's wrong you can't correct it.
Mishearing is one thing but spell checkers do just that, check the spelling of what you have put, they can't do more as they can't read your mind for the context!
Madeline Anafrid Bell
they can't read your mind?
They certainly try to, and oh boy, do they think I've got some kind of twisted mind!!!
At least one author here does it a lot
Even sells her stuff on Amazon without correcting for it.
Problem is she openly acknowledges she uses dictation to word software to write her stories but does not do an adequate job of cleaning up the inevitable spelling errors.
Essays
I'm sponsoring a national college scholarship. The essays we've received are in most part quite good. Yet . . . the other day we had one in which the young man spoke of having had childhood "ammonia" and landing in the hospital. High concentrations of ammonia will cause severe bodily damage. I gave him the benefit of the doubt until later in that same essay he described having to have a "toe" truck pull his car.
Jill
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
There's a reason I turn auto
There's a reason I turn auto-correct off on my phone, well a few really. First its annoying, Second not all words are in its vocabulary (often times variants of words error because it doesn't like a prefix or suffix), and most importantly, even if I fudge up the spelling chances are the context will make it more understandable than what auto-correct wants it to be. Sometimes what it wants completely changes the meaning of the sentence.