[outlaw]

Originally Posted by tomwed

"When you’re proof reading, you are trying to trick your brain into pretending that it’s reading the thing for the first time. Stafford suggests that if you want to catch your own errors, you should try to make your work as unfamiliar as possible. Change the font or background color, or print it out and edit by hand. “Once you’ve learned something in a particular way, it’s hard to see the details without changing the visual form,” he said."

FROM What’s Up With That: Why It’s So Hard to Catch Your Own Typos
What's Up With That: Why It's So Hard to Catch Your Own Typos | WIRED

One post had "stripping" 3 or 4 times. Hardly a typo.

[tomwed]

Originally Posted by outlaw

One post had "stripping" 3 or 4 times. Hardly a typo.

It could have been AOUTOCORRECT. Change one word and they all change the same way. There's a lot of funny auto-correct examples out there that are easy to find.

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by outlaw

One post had "stripping" 3 or 4 times. Hardly a typo.

You're having a logic attack, outlaw.

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by George Bieniaszek

I would like to add an additional lane for persons riding Segways, hoverboards, roller blades, and in-line skates!

Then we could add another lane, dug down 6 feet with a liner, fill it with water for the lap swimmers

[tomwed]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

Then we could add another lane, dug down 6 feet with a liner, fill it with water for the lap swimmers

And in the winter the Global Warming Deniers could skate on it.

[looneycat]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

Freudian slips.

wouldn't that be freudian slipps?

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by looneycat

wouldn't that be freudian slipps?

good one!

[graciegirl]

There will be a multimodal path stripping party Tonight at the lookout point on the Morse Bridge. Wear sunglasses so you won't be recognized.

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

There will be a multimodal path stripping party Tonight at the lookout point on the Morse Bridge. Wear sunglasses so you won't be recognized.

Unless you a recognizable by your "other parts"

[Mleeja]

Originally Posted by tomwed

And in the winter the Global Warming Deniers could skate on it.

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

Then we could add another lane, dug down 6 feet with a liner, fill it with water for the lap swimmers

If you are ice skating on these lanes in central Florida, then all the Global Warming Deniers are correct!

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by Mleeja

If you are ice skating on these lanes in central Florida, then all the Global Warming Deniers are correct!

good point

[rubicon]

Originally Posted by tomwed

"When you’re proof reading, you are trying to trick your brain into pretending that it’s reading the thing for the first time. Stafford suggests that if you want to catch your own errors, you should try to make your work as unfamiliar as possible. Change the font or background color, or print it out and edit by hand. “Once you’ve learned something in a particular way, it’s hard to see the details without changing the visual form,” he said."

FROM What’s Up With That: Why It’s So Hard to Catch Your Own Typos
What's Up With That: Why It's So Hard to Catch Your Own Typos | WIRED

tomwed: we had to proof read newsletters being sent to employees and one of the techniques we used was to read each article backwards forcing us to see each word for spelling. It was a certainty that if just one word was misspelled we would be hearing from an employee and his/her bravado all you could do is say thank you for your important input.

[tomwed]

Originally Posted by Mleeja

If you are ice skating on these lanes in central Florida, then all the Global Warming Deniers are correct!

That's why I said it. I'm sharpening my blades as we speak.

[dbussone]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

Freudian slips.

Freudian stripping?

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by dbussone

Freudian stripping?

I think everything Freudian involved stripping