[Windflier]

I look at a page and before I read anything my eye goes straight to whatever errors are on the page. I can’t read it until I mentally correct them.

You probably learned to read during the same era I did. You know, back when the schools actually taught the language as it's fundamentally constructed.

I have the same affliction as you do. Simple errors in spelling and punctuation have stuck out like a sore thumb to me since I was a kid in elementary school.

[arthurus]

You probably learned to read during the same era I did.

I suspect so. My grammar school years(the 50s) were passed in a Calvert System private school for Americans in Istanbul. I was an average student. After I got home I was so far ahead of everyone else that when I hit Algebra in high school it almost got me because I had not had to study for my straight As for three years and the tools were rusty. I got more history and everything else in what was known in the States as "social Studies" than I got in the rest of my public school career. As I look back on the schools in Florida and Virginia that I attended to 1964 I know that they were much better than anything now.

My wife is a primary teacher here in NW Florida where the schools have always been 10 years behind those in the northern part of the country. That used to be a liability. Now it is a relative blessing.

[rdb3]

Simple errors in spelling and punctuation have stuck out like a sore thumb to me since I was a kid in elementary school.

Same here.