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The pain can be a viscous cycle

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... vicious cycle

Imma give you some hashtags I use in my editing posts, so you'll know what to expect.

#GUMmyStuff is Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics (spelling, punctuation, capitalization).

#AmEditing is the standard thing. I use that one when I'm actively working on a project. Sometimes. Maybe.

#SpellcheckCannotSaveYou is my creation from years ago, because it's true. Do not depend on any kind of "check" program. They're wonderful safety nets. They are not infallible. Why "cannot?" Because it's incapable of saving you. There's no volition, no "will" involved. It isn't that it will not; it straight up cannot. Can't. Not happening.

There are others I use for non-editing posts, like #LowCarb and #HarrisWalz2024. Self-explanatory.

And sometimes I make them on on the fly, for one-time use. #AmARebel

#GUMmyStuff

WHINY: characterized by whining (a whiny coworker)

WHINNY: a high-pitched sound made by a horse

#SpellcheckCannotSaveYou

CUBICAL is a perfectly fine word that means "cube-shaped."

CUBICLE is also a perfectly fine word for a small space set off by partitions, especially an office area.

These are not interchangeable.

#AmEditing

TTW a post is over 12 hours old, has a half-dozen boosts and even more likes, and it isn't until now that I notice I made a typo in the second word of the headline. 🤦🏻

(It was one of those ones that turns a word into another word that is legitimate, so no red squiggles, but it means something else. The kind for which, as @GramrgednAngel so beautifully puts it, #SpellCheckCannotSaveYou.)

"Recipes that satisfy everyone's palette" does not inspire me to order from you, Every Plate.

I stopped eating crayons decades ago.

#SpellcheckCannotSaveYou

How many new employees do they hire over a three, six or 12-moth period?

——> three-, six- or 12-month period

#AmEditing #SpellCheckCannotSaveYou

#AmEditing
#SpellcheckCannotSaveYou

"They" is not "the."

defuse: to remove the fuse from, mitigate, mollify

diffuse: to spread widely, scatter

#amediting #spellcheckcannotsaveyou

#AmEditing @edibuddies

Reason 35,729 why one can't trust spellcheck: "He" and "be" are not remotely the same in meaning, but each is definitely a correctly spelled word. (I seldom see errors like this one, but they do happen.)

#SpellcheckCannotSaveYou

"To demonstrate consideration, curtesy and respect toward others"

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" ... courtesy ..."

curtesy n. a husband's interest upon the death of his wife in the real property of an estate that she either solely owned or inherited provided they bore a child capable of inheriting the estate

#AmEditing #SpellCheckCannotSaveYou

#GUMmyStuff

In spoken English, I hear a lot of confusion of "incidents" and "incidences."

An incident is an event of some kind. Some places experience more criminal incidents than others.

An incidence is a rate of occurence. Those places have higher incidences of crime than the others.

#SpellcheckCannotSaveYou

HURDLING is not HURTLING.

The first means running hurdles.

The second means moving very fast and often carries a dangerous connotation.

#SpellcheckCannotSaveYou

#AmEditing @edibuddies

Today in #SpellcheckCannotSaveYou

QUAFFED is not COIFFED

Those fancy women in New York were not, I'm fairly certain, being drunk by others as though they were liquids.

Spell-check just failed to catch "nursey" in place of "nursery" in a story. I caught in on the second pass with the read aloud feature in Word. #SpellCheckCannotSaveYou

GUSTS is not GUTS

#SpellcheckCannotSaveYou

@Nichelle @edibuddies Hence my oft-used warning that #SpellcheckCannotSaveYou

SCRAPPING

is not

SCRAPING

#SpellcheckCannotSaveYou