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Originally Posted by PaulineDesigns
Just goes to show how differently everyone reads. I see discussions on the forums where people have a really hard time reading anything with any typos and will quit reading because of it. For me, I'm a pretty fast reader and, if I'm reading for pleasure, typos just kinda get auto-corrected and I barely notice them (e.g. if it's 'plian' instead of 'plain'). When the typo/error is the wrong word (like 'plan' instead of 'plain') or the phrasing is awkward then it's like hitting a pothole and I get bumped out of the story.
Sorry to hear it  I hope the next proof turns out well  |
Part of that is a quirk of the human brain. As long as the 1st and last letters of a word are in the right place we can often scan over a sentence and make sense of a given word even if it is mis-spelled. Our brain fills in the right word for us. i.e. "A dog is man's best fiend." rather than "A dog is man's best friend." since the 1st and last letters of fiend are the same as the word friend we might easily scan over it and unconsciously correct the error. On the other hand if we find that a wrong word that isn't in context is used in a sentence we find ourselves jarred out of whatever we're reading.