The World Beyond BetterMost > The Culture Tent
In the New Yorker...
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on September 02, 2015, 01:30:20 pm ---I had no idea Oliver Sacks was that old.
--- End quote ---
I always thought he was old because he knew so much. ;)
But I didn't know he was gay until a few days ago.
serious crayons:
I knew he was old because I can remember my mom reading The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and telling me stories from it 30 years ago.
I new he was gay about a year ago, when his memoir came out. So to speak. (He was already officially out, of couse.)
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on September 03, 2015, 09:54:07 am ---I new he was gay about a year ago, when his memoir came out. So to speak. (He was already officially out, of couse.)
--- End quote ---
That's when I first learned he was gay.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on September 03, 2015, 09:54:07 am ---I new he was gay
--- End quote ---
I hope that was just my K key sticking. More and more lately, I've caught myself misspelling words -- or actually, typing homonyms of words -- that of course I know how to spell correctly. It's like my brain doesn't fully connect with my fingers. So I've even done the occasional your/re and to/o. Kind of embarrassing for a professional writer -- we tend to roll our eyes when people do that stuff.
::)
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on September 04, 2015, 11:52:06 am ---I hope that was just my K key sticking. More and more lately, I've caught myself misspelling words -- or actually, typing homonyms of words -- that of course I know how to spell correctly. It's like my brain doesn't fully connect with my fingers. So I've even done the occasional your/re and to/o. Kind of embarrassing for a professional writer -- we tend to roll our eyes when people do that stuff.
::)
--- End quote ---
It's embarrassing for a proofreader, too (also embarrassing when you don't notice that someone has made a mistake like that! :laugh: ). I tend to think that omission of small words, such as to, just indicates that our minds work faster than we can type, but I don't know whether that would explain the "homonym problem." Perhaps it would explain some of it.
When the mistake is made by someone younger who is not a professional writer, I sometimes wonder whether the person actually knows any better, because I have no idea how much or what sort of grammar and spelling kids were taught in 1980s and 1990s.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version