Sunday, December 30, 2007

Do I Have Bain Dramage?

I've noticed when I'm writing, I often screw things up, most notably omitting minor words like articles and prepositions. I'm sure you've noticed on the blog. It's aggravating, and spellcheck will not address it. If anyone knows a name for such errors, I'd like to know about it.

Typically, here's what I think happens. I'm a pretty decent typist, about 60 words per minute; I'm not a hunt-and-pecker. As I write, I compose the words in my brain, then they go into a "buffer" in my brain, and a second later I'm typing the words. That means at the time I'm typing, I'm already thinking of several words down the road. I think that's why I forget the "minor" words like articles and prepositions and why I preserve significant nouns and verbs.

What's really aggravating, is that upon rereading my writing, my mind often "fills in the blanks." The sentences make sense to me, so I miss the "minor" errors.

Anyway, I hope you're able to fill in the blanks and know that I'm not as inarticulate as I may seem.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I must be filling in the blanks because I haven't noticed that. I guess both our brains are just too powerful.

Anonymous said...

What if we put our brains together, working in concert-imagine the forces we could send out, rippling across the ether!