This lady is an English teacher who's been roasting incels by correcting their grammar...

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52. PS. In 6th grade I was a finalist from my school

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in the National Spelling Bee contest, but lost at the local level when given a completely unfamiliar word.

After high school, before college, I worked as a proofreader for an advertising directory publisher. I also worked in the AV department of an ad agency, typing and proofing scripts for producers who created radio and TV commercials (and occasionally being a soundboard to give feedback on their word choices).

In college, I tutored students in freshman composition at the college's learning center. I never took the course or its sequel, analysis of literature, because I passed both CLEP exams with a 99 percentile ranking.

But, after studying other languages in the IE linguistic family, my spelling slipped a bit because of cognate words that are spelled slightly differently. For example, the English word "origin" is spelled "origen" in Spanish.

I taught ESL for a few years.

About 14 years ago, I had a series of TIAs that showed up as pinpricks on an MRI image of my brain. Those pinprick gaps in synaptic connections occasionally affect word memory and use of homonyms. Usually I catch the homonym errors. Also, I usually remember the word I want if I pause and relax. If not, I use a similar word or look up the "missing word" online.

All that takes time so when I'm posting quickly to keep up with a thread or with responses to more than one post, mistakes do slip past me. A few times I have responded to a poster who responded to one of my posts and caught an error that I missed in my first post, then sheepishly corrected it, knowing that many people had already read it.

So, between foreign language cognates, age, TIAs, and autocorrect, mistakes occur in my posts. Since this is a message board and not a publication going to print or a classroom full of learners, I don't worry too much over imperfections in posts any more. I do my best to catch them, and accept that I won't always succeed.