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Jan. 2nd, 2017 06:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatWhen writing I've noticed that I struggle with the following bits:
1. Comma placement. A lot of times it makes no logical sense to me. If something doesn't track logically, I don't remember it. I can't remember things that do not make sense to me logically.
It can't just be an arbitrary rule that someone came up with while sitting on the potty.
2. Affect/Effect. For some reason my mind flip them. I've no clue why.
3. It's and its. Also flips them.
4. Then and than -- screw this up all the time.
There's others I'm certain. My mind often is moving faster than my fingers can type, so my fingers often type the wrong things. Or there is a disconnect between my mind and my fingers. It's worse with oral communication -- I'll often say a word that is the opposite of what I'm thinking or not what I'm intending to state at all, and worse, not realize it. It's a sort of ephasia that I have no control over. Very irritating.
Example? I was talking to my mother about Sherlock. And said that the whole bit with Watson and the bus driver should have been told in real time. My mother said -- "you mean the bus rider, it wasn't the bus driver." Me - "Oh, I thought I said bus rider."
I worry about the details, because more often than not they trip me up. I can't count the number of times I've been blasted on the internet for screwing up on a detail. Or forgetting to fact-check a point.
It can make it difficult to write at times.
1. Comma placement. A lot of times it makes no logical sense to me. If something doesn't track logically, I don't remember it. I can't remember things that do not make sense to me logically.
It can't just be an arbitrary rule that someone came up with while sitting on the potty.
2. Affect/Effect. For some reason my mind flip them. I've no clue why.
3. It's and its. Also flips them.
4. Then and than -- screw this up all the time.
There's others I'm certain. My mind often is moving faster than my fingers can type, so my fingers often type the wrong things. Or there is a disconnect between my mind and my fingers. It's worse with oral communication -- I'll often say a word that is the opposite of what I'm thinking or not what I'm intending to state at all, and worse, not realize it. It's a sort of ephasia that I have no control over. Very irritating.
Example? I was talking to my mother about Sherlock. And said that the whole bit with Watson and the bus driver should have been told in real time. My mother said -- "you mean the bus rider, it wasn't the bus driver." Me - "Oh, I thought I said bus rider."
I worry about the details, because more often than not they trip me up. I can't count the number of times I've been blasted on the internet for screwing up on a detail. Or forgetting to fact-check a point.
It can make it difficult to write at times.
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Date: 2017-01-03 11:55 pm (UTC)Business, engineers, and lawyers insist that you do separate the last two items with a comma.
English grammar teachers appear to agree with the business professionals.
I tend to write intuitively, so it is whatever sounds or feels right. Or rather is clear. But often I'll go back over it and think, wait, why did I put a comma there or why did I do that as a phrase? Since a lot of my creative writing is "conversational" or informal, I deliberately break the rules here and there. While at work, when I am writing more formally, I pay close attention to grammar.