Long day… and I’m tired. So my edit/proofing skills may not be up to snuff…

On the other hand, having a brain wired in reverse can have its plusses. I find new ways to use other words. I could claim Freudianism in my bastardization of the English language, but my transformation of words is too random and in some ways logical, at least to me.

I have developed a few tricks to get around the dyslexia. It is only through the use of a word processor that I can be coherent in my prose. It is also the processor that has caused me my greatest embarrassments. The logarithm for correcting a misspelled word looks for spellings that are close, missing a letter, has a reasonable mistake or is a common misspelling: in descending order. But if you have words that are very similar in how they could be misspelled, it is hard to know if I am using the correct word. This goes far beyond the mistreatment of there and their. Example - when writing my pal Fr. ‘I can’t believe you’re a Priest’ to complain about the huge amount of frankincense he over blessed the choir with during Christmas mass, it is very important to  use the word incense instead of incest. I probably typed in a letter combination closer to incest then incense. I would not notice the difference in the word choices field unless I see both words together. Lucky for me he found this hilarious… (otherwise I might still be chanting the complete litany of saints, in Latin...) So I have to find ways to out smart the spell-check.

The best way is to use very big ostentatious words. (Thank you Miss. M, 9th grade English, for making our class memorize your ‘word a day’ dictionary…) Vocabulary is my friend and psycholinguistics my mantel. In the prior paragraph I wanted to use the word error instead of mistake, but I kept trying to type ‘air or’. I spelled them correctly, but it took dozens of proof readings to figure out I typed it wrong. Mistake will be easier for the spell check to catch

Thus, I give my reader a disclaimer… if my writing is looking very loopy - I am either tired, in a hurry, very passionate on the subject, trying to be spontaneous, or have had a glass of wine. When I am relaxed or nervous, I always reverse or exchange words…“really officer, I only had one small ‘pinto noir’… I’m more then willing to take a ‘legalized breather’… ( I passed…)”.

It is slow writing. The advantage is I can reach a point where I become exceptionally aware of what my words mean. Since I have to concentrate on conveying my thoughts in a manner that you will be able to comprehend, I find myself choosing a word that expresses the meaning and can be detected by the logarithms. I have overload the lexicon in order to be better understood, yet in doing so I can come across as being …  read my November 6 entry…

Addendum No. 1  Only 3 hours to compose and edit this entry… Now I can have a glass of… the red wine that is not Merlot, (I can spell merlot).