Did you you notice the second "you" in the title of this post? How do you feel about (not) noticing it?

There are so many typos and grammatical errors in social media these days that I just scan everything until I get the gist.

Duplicate words, incorrect punctuation, and questionable grammar are all normal. Stopping to notice is a barrier to interacting. So unless the context is formal or really matters, I just ignore it.

I kind of feel hurt that you'd try to trip me up like that.

I did not notice it but I think that's because, as others observed, ignoring errors is just part of social media these days. Of course, that probably makes it easier to make errors, as well.

I've mentioned this on Lemmy before, but when I was a kid we had an afternoon tradition of going through a series of books that would offer puzzles, mindbenders, that kind of thing. One of these that I fairly distinctly remember was reading a paragraph then determining what error had occurred within it. The error was that the word "the" was repeated, but it was hard to notice because it happened over a line break. After the book declared it nearly impossible to notice, I tried to train myself to look for duplicate words over line breaks so as to not get tricked again ... But, successful or not, that didn't help me here.

I am now rereading each of these comments twice because you you have destroyed my trust in others. I am hurt and scared

Goddamnit you got me.

I did not not

No, but I minned my wisdom so I could max out my charisma.

Yeah well I've got two you's for you you too.

I had to read it twice because I thought I was reading it wrong. The second time I continued with the rest of the sentence and realized I had read two "you" in the phrase because there were two.

No, I read right past it.

My brain always gets caught on this shit. Makes me feel guilty in certain situations bc it's classist to want by-the-book grammar, but sometimes I genuinely have trouble understanding. Word repetitions aren't that bad, I'll just read the sentence a second time and I'm good. But its/it's or there/they're/their being mixed up can take me a minute to understand. Also, figured of speech that evolved over time and don't make literal sense anymore, such as 'I could care less' often take me a bit. People can feel understandably offended when you ask if the mean 'could' or 'couldn't' care less. But sometimes, I genuinely need to ask. Honestly makes me feel shitty about myself at times.

How many fucking times do I have to block this asinine repost?