Blog #3 (I couldn't come up with a witty title for this one.)

Sometimes it's the simplest ideas that make the most sense.

     For this week's blog we are supposed to state an 11th secret to writing well.  In my experience, reading aloud what you've written works exceptionally well.  It works even better if you have someone else that can read it out loud to you.  

     When I'm are reading to myself, I have noticed that I have a tendency to miss the obvious.  That is to say, I think I know what I wrote, but what is actually printed on the paper is different.  Sometimes I'll miss a typing a word because my thoughts are going so fast that they can't keep up with my hands.  Other times what's in my head and sounds good, doesn't actually sound so good in reality.  It isn't until someone reads aloud what I actually wrote that I realize what I have down doesn't make as much sense as I thought it did.  

     In other news, these are the grammar mistakes I found this week.

This is a Facebook post I found from one of my friends.  You'll notice that I didn't include her name in an effort to preserve her anonymity.  This is a good example of a run-on sentence.  In my opinion it should have a period after "safe" and start a new sentence at "not."  The new sentence could go something along the lines of "I don't want to let anything..."  If I'm not mistaken, I believe you would also then need to take the comma out after "sad" but I'm not entirely sure.  It's hard for me to read this because I depend on the sentence breaks that a period provides.  When the period isn't there, my brain reads it all at once the first time around and it takes me a moment to realize how it was (probably) intended to be read.

This is also a Facebook post from a friend.  This is an example of a spelling error.  I believe she meant to say "It makes me so angry how cruel some people are out there..."  I'm not entirely sure if this is a spelling mistake or an auto-correct mistake, as this can be hard to differentiate. 

     I feel as if this is the kind of thing that we used to get in chain emails, but has since evolved into annoying Facebook shares.  This was floating around my Facebook feed when I found it.  This has a whole slew of spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors.  Without the errors it should read something along the lines of:

"Do you ever wonder what your most noticeable feature is?  For example, what do people see first when they look at you?  Could someone look at a picture of me and please tell me?  I'm curious now.  Do this, I'm curious."

  It almost looks as if it's written in the way that we used to "txt" back and forth.  Unless I'm in an extreme hurry, I typically spell out the words "you" and "please" because now I have a keyboard.  The phone is also able to guess what I'm trying to spell out, which is also useful when I'm in a hurry.

Interesting things we find on Facebook eh?