Does Anyone Else Miss Words Out?

[kylesmum]

I can scribe an entire spiel, give it a cursory glance and submit, not just on here. I then go on to find i've missed out several conjunctions (generally)

This has only just started to happen recently, it's like those tricks on fb where you read the first and last letters of a word and can make sense of an entire paragraph.

Only, this isn't a trick and to be honest i'm reluctant to submit this as although I know i've treble checked it my eyes might just have played a trick and there may be a a duplicated word or a missing one.(not talking typos)

Anyone else?

[DTCwordfan]

From a paper on ageing....

Experimental research and older adults’ reports of their own experience suggest that the ability to produce the spoken forms or written forms of familiar words declines with aging.

Older adults experience more word-finding failures, such as tip-of-the-tongue states, than young adults do, and this and other speech production failures appear to stem from difficulties in retrieving the sounds of words.

Recent evidence has identified a parallel age-related decline in retrieving the spelling of familiar words. Models of cognitive aging must explain why these aspects of language production decline with aging whereas semantic processes are well maintained."

The researchers go on to describe a model wherein aging weakens connections among linguistic representations, thereby reducing the transmission of excitation from one representation to another. The structure of the representational systems for word phonology and orthography makes them vulnerable to transmission deficits, impairing retrieval. In short, this is nothing out of the ordinary.

[kylesmum]

Jim....you're young enough to laugh about it !!

Tilly...glad you made sense of it...it was actually one of my better typos and only you picked it up ;)

ummmm...can only begin to imagine what you had written out...bet the teacher got a laugh though. Hasn't harmed you though, you're one of the most concise writers i've come across.....ever. No mean feat !

[Psybbo]

I typed BEHAV!

[kylesmum]

Talbot sold his soul for the best answer...he got it ! ;)

DTC....on a more serious note, thank you for taking the trouble to research that.I did wonder if it may be part of the process we call 'aging'

[DTCwordfan]

well a lot of folk think it's the onset of something like Alzheimer's - and it's not that, kylies!

[Nibble]

I've realised recently that a lot of what I write in personal emails could be described as shorthand - certainly not proper sentences sometimes. I'm more careful with work correspondence which is more formal, but I have realised that it looks a bit slapdash. It's verbal words which elude me sometimes, I can see the thing but just have to root about a bit for its correct name....

[boxtops]

^^ nooo, I even forgot who I am - that was from me, not His Nibbleship....

[kylesmum]

Cant believe it....more than half my answer didn't post and it wasn't me !!

I shall try to continue...

I was answering DTC and thanking him...I said that 'aging'

[factor-fiction]

However hard I try to type teh word teh correctly it always comes out as teh.
As I've got older I have noticed taht however hard I try to put a round neck T- shirt/vest on teh right way round it always ends up back to front.

[-Talbot-]

kylesmum
Question Author
Talbot sold his soul for the best answer...he got it ! ;)



I beg your par.................yeah ok, I did. I admit it, I'm a best answer floozy!

[DTCwordfan]

Mine is their not 'there' - however, not the otherway around for some perverse reason. It may explain why I write 'Talbo,' not 'Talbot,' best answer or not.

[kylesmum]

Why aren't my posts posting...that's twice now ?

It wasn't a huge post...there must be something wrong...any clues anyone ?.I feel rotten now as I haven't properly thanked DTC and everyone else :(

[boxtops]

My fingers type without me asking them to. I used to have to type HOUSE regularly at work, I can't type HOURS now without adding an E on the end...

[factor-fiction]

If you put either a greater than sign or a less than sign (I can't remember which) it terminates the post, kylesmum- maybe that's what happened in your post

[factor-fiction]

I'll try it > and < and see what happens

[factor-fiction]

Ah- clearly it doesn't always terminate posts

[-Talbot-]

I thought ''Talbo' was some kind of joke and always thought to myself that I preferred Sonny Dave's 'Tablet'

[kylesmum]

Thanks for trying FF...been caught out with the before
This is strange...it has seriously curtailed my post.So, on that note, cheers everyone for taking the time to respond, I feel way better about aging now ! DTC..cheers, you've relieved me ;) x

[DTCwordfan]

Wait til the waterworks catch up with you, kyles.......lol. More seriously, what you asked - it's a standard question as to Dementia at large.

[woofgang]

well kylesmum its annoying cos I often only notice them when I have hit submit but only annoying.