Minichan

I wrote this topic and proofread it twice, and I did it in this topic. I wrote "areas" instead of "errors." Fuck!!

Alzheimer's disease.

That happens to me every once in a while for little whiles. I shrug those times off as off days or weeks

I will after adding what Mark Twain had to say about spelling - vote NO

"SPELLING"

"I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing. I have a correspondent whose letters are always a refreshment to me, there is such a breezy unfettered originality about his orthography. He always spells Kow with a large K. Now that is just as good as to spell it with a small one. It is better. It gives the imagination a broader field, a wider scope. It suggests to the mind a grand, vague, impressive new kind of a cow."

"I have had an aversion to good spelling for sixty years and more, merely for the reason that when I was a boy there was not a thing I could do creditably except spell according to the book. It was a poor and mean distinction and I early learned to disenjoy it. I suppose that this is because the ability to spell correctly is a talent, not an acquirement. There is some dignity about an acquirement, because it is a product of your own labor. It is wages earned, whereas to be able to do a thing merely by the grace of God and not by your own effort transfers the distinction to our heavenly home—where possibly it is a matter of pride and satisfaction but it leaves you naked and bankrupt."

"I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us."


"...ours is a mongrel language which started with a child's vocabulary of three hundred words, and now consists of two hundred and twenty-five thousand; the whole lot, with the exception of the original and legitimate three hundred, borrowed, stolen, smouched from every unwatched language under the sun, the spelling of each individual word of the lot locating the source of the theft and preserving the memory of the revered crime."

Sounds like a bad case of Brain Fag Syndrome.

check your auto correct settings and make sure you're not autocorrecting to the wrong words or something.

@486,764 (TTEH !JXsxEkDBLs)
brain fag isn't really an appropriate diagnosis because Becky isn't a young west African boy

Also your spelling has always been a bit shoddy. For example you commonly misspell colour as "color", favour as "favor", and don't even get me started on your use of "z" instead of "s".

@486,768 (dw skg)
Are you certain? You never know on the Internet.

@OP irreversible effects of marijuana

Happens to me all the time. I don't think you have a brain problem. It is a very interesting psychological phenomenon though.

I find myself sometimes mixing up "our" and "are", and I suspect it's even why people who know better mix up "there" "their" and "they're". One time I even wrote "wiccan" instead of "we can". It's really bizarre.

@OP
It's not brain damage. I used to have perfect spelling, but over the past few years with autocorrect and instantaneous spell checking, I've noticed myself getting complacent and making more errors. Try turning off all autocorrect and instant spell checking and I bet your spelling comes back.

Also it may be fatigue. Make sure you're getting enough sleep.

this is what happens when kimmo is no longer watching your bak