@Pat

Hmmm dyslexia. I wish i had that "excuse" :)

@trinsec

@freemo You already have the excuse that you're being you. :P

@Pat

@freemo @trinsec

A lot people have undiagnosed dyslexia. I've noticed that you often confuse things like "your" and "you're". You may have it and not know it.

@Pat

I use your by default mostly because I type to fast and dont review what I write. Couple that with the fact that i got into the habit by typing on my phone where an apostrophe is a bit tedious. That particular error, as most of my errors, are largely due to not caring and typing as fast as I can since i dont find the medium to be critical for correctness.

My formal writeups, as well as my blogs, tend to have very few errors since I proof read them.

That said my natural rate of errors has been unusually high the last 2 years since my injury and COVID largely due to the extremely high levels of stress I've been under which seems to effect the prevelance.

@trinsec

@freemo @Pat

Oh man...

Ok the real challenge here is to find a sentence without mistakes. ;)

@trinsec

hahaha valid. Honestly if i could actually edit posts on here there would be a lot fewer of them. At least on matrix i will occasionally correct my mistakes. Here I see them but usually after i already posted and only once i reread it when going over replies.

@Pat

@freemo I do tend to delete and redraft in the first minute or so, and if nobody's replied yet. Otherwise it is a 'oh shit, oh well, move on, next time better'.

@Pat

@trinsec

I used to do that but with 20K some followers it pissed off a lot of people, way more than just keeping the typos.

@Pat

@freemo Heh... valid point.
That said, I tend to take like 10 minutes per email just to make sure my answer makes total sense and contains no mistakes. I tend to do the same for my initial toots often as well.

@Pat

@trinsec

If i actually paid that much attention to my toots I probably wouldnt toot very often. Then you would cry all the time and I dont want to make you cry.

@Pat

@freemo Funny.. I cry all the time you do post! :P

@Pat

@trinsec

Thats ok, I'm usually crying when I post too, as well as any other time :)

@Pat

@freemo Touché ;)

@Pat

@trinsec @freemo

When spell-checkers came out, it was a godsend for me. If I left my spelling mistakes in my writing, you wouldn't be able to make out half of what I was saying, it's so bad.

A lot times I can't find the words in the dictionary because I can't spell it close enough to find it. I use Google a lot now because they have AI/phonetics algorhtms.

(I left that last word misspelled, just so you could see how I tried to spell it unassisted so you get a feel what I face with this issue. It's a real pain.)

@Pat

I dont use spellcheckers. I dont need that kind of negativity in my life!

@trinsec

@freemo @Pat Heh, and I usually turn off spellcheckers... because I absolutely hate the squigly red lines! They actually distract me!

I'm still trying to figure out where I can turn it off in outlook.office.com because it's English-oriented and my conversation language is Dutch.

I guess I'm teaching that stupid dictionary a lot of Dutch words now... :P

@trinsec

50% of the time my spelling is such a bastardization the spell checker has no idea what I am trying to say. the other half of the time my vocabulary is so advanced it doesnt even know the word I am trying to say.

@Pat

@freemo To be fair, you probably also don't know that word you're trying to say. ;)

@Pat

@trinsec I know everyword I am trying to say, and spell it perfectly. Its not my fault that the dictionary can't keep up with the latest spellings!

@freemo @trinsec

>the other half of the time my vocabulary is so advanced it doesnt even know the word I am trying to say.

I've wasted a lot of time trying to track down the "correct" spelling of a work, only to find that I had it right all along and the spell-checker just didn't know it.

@Pat

yea oddly enough some of the more advanced words I get right more often than the simpler ones.

@trinsec

@freemo @trinsec

Is that everyone gets pissed off at me when I try to correct their grammar?

@Pat I appreciate the correction if it's informative. I mean, how else are you gonna learn?

But I know people who absolutely hate to be corrected in any way possible. Can't always win, I suppose.

@freemo

@trinsec

I hate to be corrected. If I am corrected I cant say I'm always right anymore. Why would anyone want to be wrong!

@Pat

@freemo @trinsec

So you can be right the next time.

@Pat

That would still make me right only 50% of the time. If I am never corrected then I'm right 100% of the time.

@trinsec

@Pat You don't get his thinking pattern... he just wasn't wrong to begin with. ;)

@freemo

@trinsec

I'm starting to think you might be the smartest person on this server :)

@Pat

@freemo Oh, really? Even smarter than you? I'm so honored. ;) And since you're always right, it must be true!

@Pat

@trinsec

Well as someone who is always correct it isnt possible to actually be smarter than me. I would say we are about equals :)

@Pat

@freemo @trinsec
>That would still make me right only 50% of the time. If I am never corrected then I'm right 100% of the time.

This is why Trumpian delusion has so much mass appeal.

@Pat

Delusion? Trump is the best president we ever had. Just ashame the election was rigged and they illegally deposed him with Biden.

(That was painful to say, even ironically)

@trinsec

@Pat Heh, real dyslexia, or a 'haha, silly me, must be dyslexia' type of dyslexia?

@freemo

@trinsec @freemo

Never diagnosed officially, but I definitely have a language issue... mostly spelling, homophones and general social communication.