Comments on: Proofreading glaring errors is more difficult than it may appear? http://www.grammarchecksoftware.com/proofreading-glaring-errors-is-more-difficult-than-it-may-appear The Best English Grammar Checking Program Review Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:16:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: norcekri http://www.grammarchecksoftware.com/proofreading-glaring-errors-is-more-difficult-than-it-may-appear/comment-page-1#comment-485 norcekri Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:38:19 +0000 #comment-485 The glaring errors are usually due to inattention from familiarity: the author has been working with the text so long, she perceives what she intended to write, rather than what she actually wrote. The human brain has amazing adaptive capabilities, and we otfen can fgirue out waht teh ohetr pesron was trnyig to say, eevn wehn their are mlutipel erorrs in hte mian txt. Sometimes, this results in our minds filling in things that aren't actually there, but are strongly implied by the context. The glaring errors are usually due to inattention from familiarity: the author has been working with the text so long, she perceives what she intended to write, rather than what she actually wrote.

The human brain has amazing adaptive capabilities, and we otfen can fgirue out waht teh ohetr pesron was trnyig to say, eevn wehn their are mlutipel erorrs in hte mian txt. Sometimes, this results in our minds filling in things that aren’t actually there, but are strongly implied by the context.

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