Words that can make smart people look dumb
Pix > 07-28-2016, 03:54 AM
I get so many brain farts that it's frustrating. It's not that I don't know, it's just my brain doesn't care (at least not all of it). For example, I might mention someone "having a bear." Why did I spell it "bear" rather than "beer"? Because a brain fart, that's why, not because I don't know the difference. And what's worse, I can read it several times and still not catch it (spell check certainly won't).
I can also get ahead of myself, but offhand I can't remember examples. But sometimes I can scramble words that actually mean something (just not what I intend) because I hit the space bar at the wrong moment.
Oh! And the most infuriating to me is when I type the opposite. For example, if it mean to say such a person cannot, then I'll type "can." Or I mean to type "will" but instead type "won't." Why? I have no idea! Luckily, I'll usually catch this on proofreading, but I think this brain fart is the one that pisses me off the most at myself, because at least the other brain farts can usually be understood in spite of itself. Furthermore, this type of brain fart baffles me the most. At least I can understand the other kinds, but I can't think of any excuse for why my brain fucks up in this way.
That said, it's usually obvious when professional authors don't have editors due to all the errors, so maybe I should cut myself some slack. (It's especially obvious when most of the book is about perfect, but the last few chapters are rife with misspellings, grammatical errors, even using the wrong names for characters, in which I thought those must've been turned in on the last day with no time for proper proofreading and editing.)
