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Originally Posted by beauflow
I have issues with spelling sometimes, especially when I am triggered. I tend to swap words around like a person with dyslexia would do, and letters as well- If writing out or typing when triggered I do tend to use the wrong there, their.... and other words.
When I re-read my own writings I can pick this stuff out.
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Oh geez the i before e after c thing? I had a math teacher get upset with me because I was always swapping that around too. I was in college math courses yet to boot in high school.
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So On Behalf of the rest that aren't as "great" as others--- SORRY 
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(((Thanks for the ones that are my friends here though for accepting me for how I am and still talking to me even though I ain't got no good english)))) |
You make a significant point about the brain working on meaning versus mechanics. When I am really deeply into writing creatively, my mechanics crumble, especially the spelling. Topics of emotional gold or crap do not lend themselves to spelling well, to the point that I can use that as in indicator of my own emotional engagement at the moment!
I'm glad we have a 4-hour edit window here - my obsession gets some exercise, then.
Math! My calc instructor dismissed names of things as "just words."
I have so many feelings about that. I haven't yet met a math person who is also a word person, but it must be possible. Math person in the sense of at home with the abstract stuff like theoretical physics or proofs. (Not trig proofs, but real proofs.)
No need to be sorry, I feel.
Content matters far more than mechanics, and if the content can be followed, that's great.
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Originally Posted by Maranara
This is one that people may ding me for because it's old school, but I was taught that when you didn't know the gender of someone, you automatically referred to them in the masculine. I don't understand why this is so looked down upon today; it is nothing against women in my opinion. It makes the language neater and easier to read. Why should it be necessary to say "he or she", "him or her"...isn't one enough regardless of the gender involved? Why are some so dang sensitive?
In addition, I was taught that when addressing a letter and you didn't know to address it "Dear Sirs:", once again the masculine. If you do this now and it hits the desk of the wrong person, expect to be reemed out for it.
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Don't you mean "reamed" out, Maranara?
Gotcha! (I'm teasing; I like you, Maranara.)
There are historical reasons for the change, for things that are more important than making language smooth. I like the writers who explain they are going to alternate he and she, because it doesn't set up a one-gender impression in the mind. I might use "fireman" instead of "fire fighter" sometimes in speech with my husband, but as far as a more formal context, I'm happy with being more inclusive to us women. I prefer the tone it sets. I still snicker when I use fisher (which to me is first in my mind a bird) instead of fisherman, but that's the way we roll here in Canada.
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Originally Posted by Fresia
Such as for some reason I constantly say "on accident" even though I know it is "by accident"; it constantly slips out inadvertently that I have to constantly work on and I know this drives some people nuts for good reasons.
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I actually get a kick out of vernacular English at times, or regionalisms, ruralisms, and this one of yours that I have never seen before, I also like. But I draw the line at "I seen."
