Our Autocorrect

Introduction

As you will have noticed I am probably the worst writer you have come across. Although I use built-in spelling checkers and Grammarly I still make glaring spelling and grammatical mistakes and people continually point out how useless I am at writing, and from the faults I have mentioned above I have to agree,

I always read my articles when I have finished them, and they always look fine to me.

Do I Have Quality Control?

On my blog, there is none at all barring my own quick check, and there are people who will say there is none on posts like this, and again it is just my own visual checking with built-in and installed spelling and grammar checkers.

Although I have checked others' work when they have asked me to when I asked for reciprocal help on my own work I have been ignored or just insulted, so I gave up on that.

I often go back to my stories and notice errors, and thanks to Vocal’s Quick Edit feature I can correct any errors.

But even better than that my friend Dharsheena send me screenshots of my errors after they have been published. This is really helpful and means I often see other errors which I can also rectify in the same corrective editing session. Very often these don’t make sense to me, I am sure I haven’t typed what is set down so I assume it is an autocorrect error.

Do We Autocorrect When We Read?

Often we will read things and they look correct to us, but they may be full of mistakes but our brain autocorrects for us so we do not see any errors. This is one of the reasons I admire Dharsheena and manuscript editors and Proof Readers because they have to be able to switch off their built-in autocorrect. So that they can identify any errors from either spelling or grammatical perspectives. I call Dharsheena my "Word Girl" and I wrote this poem for her.

I think a good way to demonstrate this would be to include a few memes that show how our brains process apparent gobbledegook.

A Few Examples of How We Can Autocorrect

I spent two days wondering how to actually find the images below, phrases like "Code Reading" and "Reading Difficult Passages" were ones that I tried and when I announced that I had hit a veritable brick wall I thought maybe just "People Who Can Read This" and got all these images that you can have fun with below. The Google Search is here, which returns a lot more than I have included here.

See what you make of these and let me know what you think. I think these all prove we can see sense in apparent nonsense. When our minds see something that is actually wrong, it actually corrects it for us and we see something that is actually wrong as correct.

A Correct Conclusion On Incorrect Words

I was tempted to deliberately include some incorrect words but decided against it, so any errors that you find in this article are accidental and if you do find any let me know otherwise your own autocorrect has corrected the errors for you.

I believe our brains can be very capable tools in dealing with the often difficult task of reading stories, news and documents. We are usually unaware of what our minds do to give us the information that we are actually looking for.

So keep reading, keep learning, keep writing and keep on keeping on.