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⌈ Secret Post #2478 ⌋

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[rune factory 4]

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[Law & Order]

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[Wander Over Yonder]

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[Breaking Bad]

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[Transformers: IDW Generation One]

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(Panic! at the Disco)

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[Luke Evans as Bard the Bowman in "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug"]

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[league of legends pro teams - team curse]

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Secrets are usually short enough that they shouldn't be too hard to proofread?

Can't speak for anyone else, but I have a "thing" that makes it so I literally can't see when I skip a word, or use the wrong version ["Their" instead of "There"] because when I read it my brain puts the right word where it would go. It literally takes forgetting about what I wrote to see what's wrong and, well, secrets aren't worth that.

Read your work backwards. It helps because you are not used to seeing it.

Everyone has that problem. Read the words out loud, read them backwards, write them down and then double check. There are dozens of ways to proofread to get around that "thing."

Yeah but....it can be easy to overlook something sometimes and..well sometimes people just make mistakes. Like if it's something they're passionate about or have strong emotions about they may get caught up in emotions and forget they spelled "the" as "teh".

I sometimes make that mistake in typing myself when IMing and I 'm otherwise a decent speller. So yeah. People are human. I mean I get being annoyed by something that's really hard to read and understand and asking for clarification. But there's a difference between that and "HAH YOU MADE A MISTAKE! YOU FAIL FOREVER" /"You must be an idiot and I CANNOT take you seriously!11!" The latter is just being a contrary dick.

Why would you proofread something as silly as fandom secrets? I agree with the above, it's not like this is being graded or has any professional standards. Most people are probably careless with their spelling or grammar when writing secrets because this is sort of a careless pastime.

Enh, 'just because it's (insert not being graded thing here)' doesn't seem a reason to me why people shouldn't proofread or at least attempt a modicum of proper grammar and spelling.

Agreed that it shouldn't be the be all and end all of a secret or a text or an email, but to me using the 'it's only' excuse is why people have so much trouble doing it for important things.

Could the people pointing out mistakes be less dickish about it? Yes. Should the people who made the mistake be offended if someone does point it out? No.

If you make a mistake doing anything, people are likely to point it out. Partially because we like feeling superior to someone else, and partially because it really DOES bother a lot of us to see a lack of caring in even the small things.

(Cue me probably having made a typo somewhere in this.)

I proofread everything. I can't help it. I'm also the kind of person who has to jiggle the game of Boggle until all the pieces are lined up rectangularly. Which is not to say I never make mistakes, because I'm not perfect, but when I notice them it bugs me.

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