Sorry y’all I forgot this community existed 😭 so much on my mind… will likely pop in less frequently now…

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    Is a lady pouncing on your like a tigress a good or a bad thing? I guess for a dedicated family man like Mr. True both options are bad.

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      A gazillion years ago my teacher at uni wrote this on the blackboard (might’ve been a whiteboard, don’t remember):

      Paris in the
      the spring

      He then proceeded to ask random people to read it out loud. This went on for several minutes, while I was in the back row listening to all these people repeating “Paris in the spring” and losing my mind thinking I was hallucinating the second “the”.

      Conclusion: not a new thing at all, humans have always been clumsy fools, thank you for coming to my TED talk.

      Edit: I just realised I messed up the formatting on the crucial part of this post. See above: clumsy fool

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        It has always been easy to miss seeing the repeated word, but it’s not easy to accidentally write a repeated word by hand. I only do it (as far as I know) when I’m typing with auto-complete. (And I’m not even sure why auto-complete has that problem.)

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          Just a matter of being distracted for a second (“will pounce on… What? Uhuh? […on on on…] Yeah, cool, bye. What was I writing? Oh yeah: ‘… on you…’”. And then you proofread and miss the repeated word.