John West Wrote:
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> When this place sadly disappears and most of us
> move on the trainnews.org, we will find that
> trainnews.org has a post edit option. On other
> discussion boards with that kind of option I have
> found that after two or three post edits I usually
> have most of the typos, spelling and gramatical
> errors, and poor syntax corrected in my posts. As
> Carol noted above, it seems to be far more
> difficult to pick out your own errors than those
> made by others. I tend to see mine only well after
> my original post. My theory is that when you
> proof read your own stuff you tend to percieve
> what you intended to write and read right through
> the errors. Carol, if you were at Cal around
> 1958-9, you might remember days when the Daily
> Californian was full of typos....those were the
> days that I was the night editor...proof reading
> has always been a challenge for me!
>
> JBWX

John, I graduated in '58 and assure you that the Daily Cal and the Pelican were always full of typos, regardless of who was the night editor or etc. :-) Tony Johnson (above) said the same thing---when you read your own stuff you see what you intended and don't see your mistakes. I type about 60+ wpm and the computer tries to fill in words it thinks you are going to use and if I don't pay attention, which I frequently don't, it will substitute a word I didn't mean.
Ah, technology! Ain't it wonderful??
C.