Re: Associative Memory
Howard, on host 68.215.208.68
Wednesday, April 21, 2004, at 11:15:24
Re: Associative Memory posted by commie_bat on Wednesday, April 21, 2004, at 05:57:42:
> > Rewinding a bit, Faux Pas, this common error of yours keeps company with "Murkon's Revenge" and "The Secret of Brackley Manor." I understand how it happens -- our memories *are* associative -- but not why people don't care enough about the things they care about to guard against errors like this. It's not all that hard to do a word-by-word verification, and when a title is long, like the 2 Guys title, I would have thought it a natural and obvious thing to do, not to mention a simple courtesy to the originator of the work. > > I find that sometimes my memory considers itself so reliable that I won't notice this kind of mistake even if I check word for word. I'm sure others have had similar experiences. > > My brain auto-corrects a lot of obvious errors too. In grade school, when I would copy stuff off the blackboard, sometimes someone else would point out a mistake that the teacher had made. I would wonder why I, the consummate teachers' pet, hadn't caught the mistake. Then I would look at my notes, and see that I had written the text down correctly. My brain had corrected the mistake without even telling me about it. > > Oh well, I always was one of the strange ones. > > ^v^:)^v^ > F"child progeny"B
Speaking of strange ones, I can talk to someone I know and they can use all kinds of bad English like "Ain't got no money," and I never notice it. But let someone on TV goof up slighly and it hits me like a hammer. Howard
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