You forgot to close your paragraph bracket.
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/giggling and running like hell
Seriously, I do understand what you mean.
I think it’s because when *we* read what we’ve written, we see it as we “thought it” and are blind to the actual printed words.
It’s easy to be dispassionate yet critically vigilant about something someone else has written.
[and really, most people just skip over typos unless they’re unintentionally hysterically funny ones]....:)
That's a great point. Yesterday I had to rewrite something, and as soon as I started rereading it I thought, "Oh, this is fine, what the hell." I was about to leave it as it was, but then I really looked what I'd written and saw flaws. Up to that point, just reading the opening words put me in the mindset I was in when I'd first written it, and of course I KNEW what I meant...
It seems silly to have to remind myself, but sometimes you get lazy.
Typos jump up from the page and attack my eyes. I cannot skip over them.
I can literally glance at the computer screen where someone is working, point out some typos to them, and not have a clue what they're writing about.
When I was leaving one job, the lab supervisor lamented, "Oh, no! Now who's going to spellcheck my documents?"