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I strongly relate to the issue with homonyms getting mixed up. I don't think I made a single mistake of that nature between the ages of 15 and 30, but they star
by barrkel 7y ago
I strongly relate to the issue with homonyms getting mixed up. I don't think I made a single mistake of that nature between the ages of 15 and 30, but they started to creep in as more of the thought -> typing pathway get ever more embedded in muscle memory and other unconscious mechanisms.
- sunstone 7y agoSame here. However I also notice that my writing has got better as my spelling has deteriorated. Perhaps the brain the moves up through higher abstraction levels as it ages.
- jghn 7y agoThe same has happened to me. I used to never make mistakes with homonyms but now do so quite frequently. I had assumed it was somehow related to changing technology and how that ties into my mental pathways. Now you all have me curious if perhaps it’s an artifact of aging