Errors are a routine part of our cognitive systems, as likely to happen to you as to me, as to that guy with the terrible opinions ranting beneath an article.
life comes with mistakes, without mistakes we don't learn and it just part of life.
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- Sep 2022
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“I’m going, to,” instead of “I’m going, too.” Your brain is used to hearing the word “going” followed by the word “to”
I've made this error countless times and I always wonder why my brain does it, so this part of the article especially stood out to me because it explained why.
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Sometimes those habits steer us wrong.
Habits can be our worst enemies and a lot of times are extremely hard to change when used frequently.
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The brain doesn’t always consult a word’s sound, but studies have shown that it frequently falls back on it, and sound tells us nothing about the difference between “you’re” and “your.”
Sounds are definitely the main factor that throws me off when writing and i'm sure a lot people can relate to that.
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To find out, I spoke with Maryellen MacDonald, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who studies how the brain processes language. She said that even though your brain knows the grammar rules, other forces override that knowledge. The brain doesn’t just store words like a dictionary does for easy retrieval, it’s more of a network. You start with a concept you want to express and then unconsciously consider several options from its associative grouping
It's really interesting to find out how our brain truly processes these words and why we make those annoying mistakes.
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Calling out other people’s grammar mistakes has become such an Internet pastime that Weird Al Yankovic made a music video about it and a Twitter account called the Grammar Police has attracted more than 19,000 followers.
grammar mistakes really have become something you look out for in comment, captions and daily social media posts.
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“your” instead of “you’re”
To this day I make this mistake countless times, in some cases because i'm simply tying too fast, or just overall not paying much attention so seeing that even writers make the same mistake shows that it is truly confusing at times.
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I am a writer, which is why it’s particularly embarrassing that I sometimes type the word “right” when I mean to type “write.” Shouldn’t I know better?
My brain constantly gets those mixed up, just like I get to and too mixed up as well.
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