Sometimes I Misread Titles and Headlines
By hereandthere
@hereandthere (45645)
Philippines
August 26, 2016 11:47pm CST
Once in a while, as I scroll down the Recent Discussions, I would misread some of the titles and go, "Huh?"
For example:
"I can use Mylot for phone" (I can use my phone for Mylot)
"Put that Pipe into your Smoke" (Put that in your pipe and smoke it)
And just now, "Sixty Eight" instead of "Eighty Six!"
The same happens when reading headlines when we used to buy newspapers.
If it's two lines long, one word from each line would somehow exchange places, and I'd have to re-read it.
I don't think it's speedreading. It's not the same as mistaking can and can't, do and don't.
I remember a friend in the US standing in front of a house, confident that she had the right door number, but it turns out, on closer inspection, that she transposed the last 2 digits.
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@Letranknight2015 (51914)
• Philippines
27 Aug 16
Can't blame them, in mylot it's multi tasking. You don't jsut make post but also responds or participate on other people's post. Just like now, I had to edit my recentt post over and over.
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
27 Aug 16
i write on ms word first and i edit over and over again, too
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@Letranknight2015 (51914)
• Philippines
27 Aug 16
@hereandthere my windows doesn't have ms office yet, yeah I know when i bought this back in 2014 it didn't have ms office. so now Im going to save to buy one i think the student version is more appropriate.
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
27 Aug 16
@Letranknight2015 my friend uses libre which is free. i think it used to be openoffice and very similar to ms word.
@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
27 Aug 16
do you make mistakes with numbers, too?
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@jstory07 (139354)
• Roseburg, Oregon
27 Aug 16
@hereandthere Sometimes I remember them wrong. It happens to all of us.
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@much2say (55330)
• Los Angeles, California
4 Sep 16
@hereandthere That's true . . . but I think sometimes my brain makes it's own pattern and messes me up 
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.@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
4 Sep 16
@much2say my brain still refuses to memorize our new landline after all these months, but it has no problem remembering all the previous ones.
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
4 Sep 16
some numbers are easier to remember, like if there's a pattern to them.
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
9 Sep 16
even the mailman seems to have it. it seems he confused 6 with 9.
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@xFiacre (12917)
• Ireland
27 Aug 16
@hereandthere When I see a sign saying "Shop fitters" I always read "Shop lifters". I just can't help it!
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
27 Aug 16
@xFiacre that would make me panic for a second! hahaha!
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@MarymargII (12422)
• Toronto, Ontario
27 Aug 16
Is this something you always had or are you saying it's just that you read too quickly? Everyone does do that to some extent.
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
27 Aug 16
sometimes i miss a word, especially when reading long posts, but it's when the transposing words in titles and newspaper headlines that feels weird.
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
27 Aug 16
@MarymargII i don't feel that it's a problem yet, although there is one native speaker in this post (fiacre banks) who always reads 'shop fitters' as 'shop lifters,' so being ESL probably isn't a factor.
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@MarymargII (12422)
• Toronto, Ontario
27 Aug 16
@hereandthere I do it sometimes, but you must have a little more of a problem with that than most! Also--is English a second language to you---? That could also do it. In any case you're doing very well!
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@shaggin (72021)
• United States
29 Aug 16
@hereandthere Nope I call it streetlight dyslexia hahaha
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
29 Aug 16
oh, wow. that's scary. but it's not color blindness, isn't it?
@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
27 Aug 16
true. some can make you go hmm, there's a hint of truth there.
@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
27 Aug 16
sometimes i wonder about dyslexia, but it only happens now and then
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
27 Aug 16
i do that too when i am speed reading. i have to read it twice so i won't err in commenting
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
28 Aug 16
today i just misread 'did you contact' as 'how do you contact' 
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
28 Aug 16
@hereandthere hmm, i hope your brain is doing its job of transmitting what you see and what it means. sometimes we jump and miss a word in between the lines; i.e., just the start and the end of the sentence and fill the middle with words we think are there
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@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
28 Aug 16
So true, sometimes we do not have the time to edit; then later, we would realize there was a mistake somewhere.
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
29 Aug 16
no, @acelawrites, it wasn't mistakes in my own writings. i was misreading other mylotters' writings even when they're written correctly.
@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
28 Aug 16
i guess because they were very similar? my sense of direction is awful.
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@RubyHawk (99405)
• Atlanta, Georgia
29 Aug 16
@hereandthere that was my problem I was in a hurry and wasn't really looking.
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@ilocosboy (45156)
• Philippines
27 Aug 16
If we are in hurry, we tend to misread the titles and headlines.
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
27 Aug 16
sometimes i miss a word, even when i'm not in a hurry, but in my examples, it's more like the words seem to change places.
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@ilocosboy (45156)
• Philippines
27 Aug 16
@hereandthere maybe its just natural, we read forward with our eyes so we tend to be faster than our eyes.
@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
27 Aug 16
you know what, i still can't memorize our new landline. this is our fourth because it's part of the internet and cable plan.
what i still remember are our past 3 telephone numbers because each one lasted for many years.
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@epiffanie (11326)
• Australia
30 Aug 16
These days I often misread or misunderstand what I read .. it's embarrassing sometimes ..
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I hope the content reviewer wont notice it 
@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
27 Aug 16
that's exactly the word - backtrack. sometimes it's harmless and you laugh at yourself, but sometimes the context and impact completely changes, like a 68 yr old vs 86 yr old
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