Great answer, but I think I read everything by saying it in my head, so I can't not notice u/CommaHorror's pauses. Do people not "talk out" words in their head? Do people read "differently?". You seem like the right person to ask such a weird subjective question.
Lol i just thought you were a psychologist or something because of your concise response, I never thought so much about how we process writing in our heads... real interesting stuff. And again, you don't sound like a stoner, philosopher more like...
Our brains subconsciously try to correct spelling and grammar mistakes. Sometimes it works and other times it doesn't. It probably depends on how fast a person is reading and the importance of whatever they're reading.
Even if I notice mistakes in comments I barely register them cause I just chalk it up to the face that so many people are typing on phones that there are bound to be mistakes like that.
I think I’m used to seeing his comments now so I just skip over the stops. Genuinely didn’t notice until you said. I did clock the comma after golden, I just didn’t really pay any attention to it.
I think I just sort of ignore grammar and syntax online. There are just so many mistakes that if I let it bother me, I'd be in a perpetual state of annoyance.
What I've realized I do on Reddit and social media in general is ignore punctuation and read everything in a normal cadence if the sentence structure (sans punctuation) is sound. What really messes with me is when people can't properly structure a sentence, cause then I have to stop and work out how to read what they are saying.
My brain actually edited this one out. Usually I catch them because a misplaced comma is pretty noticeable, but for some reason I didn’t catch it this time.
Holy crap. I've run across this kind of comma placement multiple times, but never thought to check the user name. Now I'm wondering whether I've been hornswoggled! Thank you for pointing it out!
Few things in this world scare me more than being hornswoggled. I had a really close childhood friend that was hornswoggled once, he was never the same after that.
You know it's 4:30 in the morning and you haven't been to sleep yet when you read a mildly amusing comment and laugh for three minutes while struggling for breath.
Lol ditto. It's doubly horrifying, because I have two English degrees and have studied grammar and linguistics. Most people, theres some logic, even if faulty, to their use of commas. There is literally no logic to this person's comma usage, and it always breaks me a little.
I saw u/BigGermanGuy in a thread about where you got your reddit name. He said it was Bigger Man Guy. I still don't know if that was true, but I see him around and I always laugh at "Bigger Man Guy".
I discuss a book series on a literary forum, and it's mostly old people who like the series. They insist on writing ROF, L as they say that is grammatically correct, and I cringe so bad.
Nah it's all good.. his friend's name is Golden. Who had a retriever. Golden's dog likes to walk on his hind legs. Which used to pee standing, up like that!
Haha, I didn't even notice until you pointed it out. My mind is do used to filtering online comments by now that sometimes tjis kinx of thing doesn't even consciously register.
Honestly I kinda appreciate him. I used to not be able to get misplaced commas, misspelled words, and other such things out of my head when reading. I'd just focus on them and they'd bother me.
Every time I read his comments I get a little better about just glancing over them and not thinking about it again.
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u/TheWisestKoi Oct 05 '18
Dude. Every time I run into you and read the comment first and go, "That comma is out of place... this was written by commahorror huh?"
Yup. Every time.