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I'm not sure if it's some sort of anti-plagiarism fingerprinting technique, but this article reads as though random words have been deleted from it. > “I’m int
by 22c 4y ago
I'm not sure if it's some sort of anti-plagiarism fingerprinting technique, but this article reads as though random words have been deleted from it.
> “I’m interested stories of redemption…”
(I checked the source and there is an 'in' in the original.)
> that seemed to be very what this essay was about
> essay is over 4,500 long.
> writing process wasn’t the focus essay
> focuses heavily on the struggles of her over the year
- Thorrez 4y agoWhat's funny is I read the entire article and didn't notice any of those. Although I don't think that last one is an example of a missing word. It's awkwardly phrased, but the grammar still works AFAICT.
- throwanem 4y agoI find I do that when my speed of thought outpaces my rate of typing. I "know" the words are there in that they're part of the sentence I intend to type, but I'm not closely enough attending what my hands are typing to notice they didn't come out.
- ohazi 4y agoThis is why we proofread?
- throwanem 4y agoEh. I'm sure this isn't the only place this author writes, and I suppose Stalin's maxim may apply.
- blondin 4y agoincidentally, chrome has an integrated proofreader now! i was pleasantly surprised when i saw the feature. doubly so when it said it's the same one gmail uses.
- ad404b8a372f2b9 4y agoWhat's Stalin's maxim?
- throwanem 4y agoOh, the old bit about "quantity [having] a quality all its own".
- 22c 4y agoWorse is when you spend a bunch of time rewording an email to upper management or an important stakeholder making sure they don't get the wrong idea or misinterpret your words, re-read it several times, hit send, then check your sent items and notice words missing :')
- throwanem 4y agoI wonder if proofing it by ear via TTS might make stuff like this easier to catch. The "come back and reread in half an hour" method doesn't always, unfortunately.
- actually_a_dog 4y agoRead it backwards. Start at the end, and read word for word, just in reverse order. This forces you to slow down enough that you end up processing single words rather than sentences and phrases. As a result, you can notice misspellings and missing words more easily than while reading normally.
- IggleSniggle 4y agoI make these kinds of writing mistakes constantly, but especially when writing on a phone (like now) where my thumb doesn’t come anywhere close to keeping up with my thoughts. Somehow I often don’t see them even when I reread what I wrote…it’s like my mind fills in the words so completely that it is unable to detect that they are missing.