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I didn't even notice the typo in the title until I started reading the article. I wonder how many would have noticed had it not been fixed?
by u801e 5y ago
I didn't even notice the typo in the title until I started reading the article. I wonder how many would have noticed had it not been fixed?
- twodave 5y agoI noticed it right away. I am naturally a very accurate speller, though. I think it has to do with the ability to more or less visualize words. My wife can't visualize them. She struggles with spelling and wouldn't have noticed the mistake in the article at all.
- pm215 5y agoI'm not sure visualization is necessary -- I can't visualize much at all, and definitely don't visualize words, but misspelt words are immediately obvious to me. They don't look right -- so maybe you need to have a memory of the way words look, but you don't need to be able to actively recall it (ie visualize them) ? I've always assumed that spelling ability was linked to reading a lot when young, but that's just my personal experience so there's probably research somewhere saying that theory's wrong :-) As an aside, it's a minor miracle that reading is possible at all (ie that we can do it fluidly and without conscious effort rather than as a laborious decoding and sounding out process). There's no inherent reason why the visual and language parts of the brain should be so capable of working together -- they never evolved to do it.)
- syspec 5y agoProbably, not many... until word spread. Once you see it, that's all you see
- lbriner 5y agoI would have probably assumed it was an American spelling (as a Brit). Certainly wouldn't have bothered me too much.
- unwind 5y agoHand up, luckily I scanned the comments before posting a request to have it fixed. Great story!