By A common mistake I see on this board is people incorrectly writing to themselves “and then there are the letters that they do not recognize.” The words “and then there are the letters that they do not recognize” are an example of this. As you type, the letters that you write to yourself are sometimes just not being recognized as coming from themselves.
When I type (especially to myself) I will often misspell the words that I am typing to myself because I am not conscious of what I am doing. This causes me to misspell words that I type to myself. Sometimes I will use a special “corrector” app to fix these words and other times I will just use what I typically use, “I guess.
The most common mistake is using a spell-check tool to correct your words on a regular basis. This is especially true in the United States. Sometimes though, you may be just trying to make the words fit together as you read them out loud without even realizing that you are making a mistake. Of course, this is a really frustrating problem and it’s one that we are going to tackle in a separate article.
Of course, this is one of those situations you don’t know how to fix because you don’t even know that you are making a mistake. If you’re like me, you just remember it all wrong and can’t figure out what you did wrong. This is a problem we have to address. At the moment we are going to focus on correcting words that you will frequently misspell, so that the words don’t get misfiled out of your brain and into the wrong place.
To be clear, this is not a system that could be used to train spell check. But we are going to be working on the idea of getting the words wrong so that you can be free to use the correct one.
Some words that we often misspell are words that are difficult to spell, like “I’m sorry”. For example, if you have a word like “I’m sorry” but the spelling is wrong, the word will need to be corrected. It should get you to the correct spelling so that you dont feel like you are wrong for misspelling a word.
Im sorry is one of those words that you can spell and you can’t. Also, Im sorry is not a word, it’s a phrase. So a good spell checker should be able to show the correct spelling. Since we are not actually using this, we will just use our fingers and copy the words verbatim.
It’s like typing a sentence: “I should also be” instead of “I should go to be”. The problem is that because we are in the correct spelling, our brain associates this spelling with the correct word. For example, Im sorry is just Im sorry, so the correct spelling is Im sorry. We can go through the same thing if you have an incorrect word like I am sorry. Then we have to correct this word.
The problem is that the part of the brain that helps with correcting words is the same part that also keeps the correct spelling from being associated with the correct word. So when you are typing the word “I’m sorry”, you are not actually typing the word “I’m sorry”. Instead, you are typing the word “I’m sorry.” We call this part of the brain “the anterior temporal lobe.
This is one of the reasons that we often have to correct words as we type them. This is also one of the reasons that the automatic correction is often inaccurate. To correct a misspelled word, we have to move it to the back of the mind and then move it back again. This is a problem when you have a misspelled word like I am sorry because you have to move it back into the mind so you can correct the word.
