When people pretend they cannot understand a sentence becuse of a grammatical error.
If you honestly can’t parse out what a person is trying to say because they left out a comma or misspelled a word or God forbid used the wrong “their” perhaps you need to work on reading skills.
The brain generates a very specific signal (based on region and timing) when it detects a grammatical error—and it generates the same signal when you’re listening to a sentence and realize halfway through that you’ve misinterpreted the syntax and need to re-parse it. I think this latter case is actually the real purpose of the signal: every time it triggers, your brain is warning you that you need to stop and check the sentence again even if the meaning is actually unambiguous.
When people pretend they cannot understand a sentence becuse of a grammatical error.
If you honestly can’t parse out what a person is trying to say because they left out a comma or misspelled a word or God forbid used the wrong “their” perhaps you need to work on reading skills.
The brain generates a very specific signal (based on region and timing) when it detects a grammatical error—and it generates the same signal when you’re listening to a sentence and realize halfway through that you’ve misinterpreted the syntax and need to re-parse it. I think this latter case is actually the real purpose of the signal: every time it triggers, your brain is warning you that you need to stop and check the sentence again even if the meaning is actually unambiguous.
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Or they can’t figure out typos where one letter is just an adjacent key and the sentence makes it obvious.
I’m sorry, but, without commas, this is just a mess, and I’m not going to torture myself into reading it.