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A decent proportion of the population frequently run internal monologues in the voiced manner - when I'm typing this out I can hear (not actually hear but menta
by munk-a 4y ago
A decent proportion of the population frequently run internal monologues in the voiced manner - when I'm typing this out I can hear (not actually hear but mentally hear) someone speaking the words as I type. I assume the frequency of homophone typos are due primarily to this - since both skew and SKU are identical in my inner monologue and I'm trusting my fingers to choose the right combination.
I think homophone spelling errors are a different issue though - english education in the US is really quite poor so a lot of grammatical rules[1] (they're/their/there) and spelling aren't really well impressed on society at large - people will hear a term in conversation and start using it in their own speech, when they arrive at typing it out they'll make their best guess at spelling and it'll probably end up a roll of the dice which homophone their spell-check ends up shoveling them towards.
1. /me types while admitting they constantly type in spoken english - preferring the spoken sentence construction rules. Something something glass houses and stones.
- renewiltord 4y agoThanks for answering. Of course, I have the opposite of your second sentence, mispronouncing words I've only ever read :)
- munk-a 4y agoAh, I still internally mispronounce Quay - no matter how hard I try and relearn it as KEY.
- kortilla 4y ago> english education in the US is really quite poor so a lot of grammatical rules[1] (they're/their/there) and spelling aren't really well impressed on society at large This is false. It was impressed into us many times throughout grade, middle, and high school. People just don’t care enough to get the right spelling because they were using the words natively long before they learned to spell them.
- pokey00 4y agoBacking this up- I see that complaint all the time about US education, but I know me and all my peers had this impressed on us throughout our (public) schooling. People just don't care because to them, the word is right but the spelling part is a formality that can be ignored.
- mariuolo 4y agoFor what it's worth, I started making homophonic spelling errors after my English improved. I wonder if I'm unconsciously mimicking errors from others, or if something in my brains has changed.