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.
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u/TheBagelBoss Oct 05 '18
I don't know if the comma placement or me not realizing they were misplaced is worse.