Should a Nobel laureate be required to take the SATs?

[tblue37]

16. I often have to deal with typos when I return to an earlier post to read replies, but they are never

as bizarre as the things I end up posting because of the hyperactive autocorrect function. I find a lot of those in other people's posts, too, so I want to believe that when people read a screwy post like that from me, they will immediately assume that the autocorrect function is at fault.

Your typo was of a different sort than my typos or my autocorrect screw-ups. I bet you started the sentence with a wordy phrase weighed down by correctly paired but unwieldy negatives ("highly unlikely that they would not accept her&quot but then chose to go with the more streamlined positive phrasing ("highly likely that they would accept her&quot . When posting online, we often revise our posts on the fly, and sometimes bits of the earlier versions reveal themselves like clues at an archaeological dig. I bet that's what happened in this case.

And since most of us are busy but still want to grab a bit of time to join these discussions, we are often posting on the fly. (That is certainly why I so often fail to notice my typos until I return to read a reply to my post.)