Re: Dulles Access Road/ 267
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Smarter than the average bear
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Date: October 26, 2014 10:22PM
Neuroscience says... Wrote:
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> Greybeard Wrote:
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> > "HIV" is a typo, "your" is illiteracy.
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> No, having your fingers type a homophone of a word
> that you had correctly in your head is a result of
> a common shortcut that signalling centers in your
> brain take advantage of as a matter of simple
> efficiency. The greater the number or complexity
> of things you are thinking about while trying to
> type, the greater the number of such errors that
> will occur.
>
> If you want to focus on true illiteracy, consider
> the numbers of people who type "looser" when they
> mean "loser" or "tenant" when they mean "tenet".
> There are at least hundreds of such people at
> FFXU, and all of them are Republicans. A few of
> them even believe that there is such a thing as
> "Holland Day" sauce. Ack!
It takes two seconds of proofreading to fix your to you're. It's illiteracy.