c/truecomics · by clark@midwest.social · 301d

Saviour (September 14, 1909)

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

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agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 301d

I mean I get the point, but honestly I feel like if I was carrying such a large baby I'd seriously appreciate the counterbalance.

ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 301d (8 replies)

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Lumidaub@feddit.org · 31 pts · 301d (2 replies)

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

ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 301d (1 reply)

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.)

Lumidaub@feddit.org · 5 pts · 301d

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.

Sergio@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 301d (1 reply)