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MaskedWallaby
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I was doing some homework earlier, and wondered if this is something anyone else encounters:
I have some peculiar writing habits. I attempt to write fast (and therefore illegibly), but sometimes my thought train is either behind or ahead of my hand. I'll write a word ahead of time (ex. Instead of writing "There was one on my bed", I'd write "There was on my..." then go back and erase). Or sometimes I write a word twice and have to go back and erase. This somewhat translates into speech too, as I'll sometimes switch words in the sentence (usually the verb and the noun).
Anyone else have things like this or am I just typically retarded?
I have some peculiar writing habits. I attempt to write fast (and therefore illegibly), but sometimes my thought train is either behind or ahead of my hand. I'll write a word ahead of time (ex. Instead of writing "There was one on my bed", I'd write "There was on my..." then go back and erase). Or sometimes I write a word twice and have to go back and erase. This somewhat translates into speech too, as I'll sometimes switch words in the sentence (usually the verb and the noun).
Anyone else have things like this or am I just typically retarded?
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I don't have it when speaking though.
It's quite readable, short, and some versions are very inexpensive.
I do this too, although not really in speech, apart from the occassional stumbling over words that I think everyone does.
For the most part, my brain is always going as fast as I am writing, mostly because I don't spend a second writing without having a long "pacing while I tell myself my ideas" session.
Sometimes I'll write a totally incorrect letter, or I'll begin the next word in the middle of the preceding one.
did you do that purposely?
ehehe
yeah i do the same too when typing, it kinda spills out of the fingers sometimes
English has never been a strong point of mine though.
No :shock:
It's worse than I thought.
No, just lack of writing experience. You're thinking in terms of "the now" while writing, rather than the whole picture. Ideally, once you are essentially simply committing an entire thought to paper, you're simply focusing on putting everything in order so that it makes sense. There's no rush to finish a line or wondering what comes next because you already know it, so you simply watch the screen and read along, to ensure that it follows standard grammar, spelling, and other things, in a cohesive way.
When you lack writing experience, you tend to write "as you go," so you're thinking of each sentence, and the order of that sentence, as your keys hit the keyboard. Therefore, you skip words and rearrange certain things. It's because your brain is thinking about the whole document while you're writing it down, so of course you're skipping words or using the wrong word here or there.
It's no different from speaking off the cuff and saying something that makes no sense because you forget a word or skip a word or use the wrong word because you were thinking of something differently at the time. If you take a little time to prepare what you're going to say in your head, speaking simply becomes repeating back what you decided on saying, and you make significantly fewer errors.
So, really, it's just a matter of experience and preparation. If you plan what you're going to write and don't rush through it as you're writing it, you won't have that problem.
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