The editor in me...

[amethal]

I've never seen that either.

I used to see a lot of horde / hoard errors, so much so that I was beginning to wonder whether American English just didn't use "hoard" at all, but apparently it's a perfectly cromulent word.

There was one adventure where a dragon was described as "usually sleeping with his horde". I guess it explains why there were so many half-dragons in 3e.

 

[Retros_x]

Everybody is stupider thanks to our phones, and AI is only going to make it worse.

my morning read is perfectly relevant: The End of Reading Is Here

(I could read one the atlantic article for free on my phone, on PC it seems to require opening an account)

 

[Aeson]

And there are certain other homonyms (like Their, There, They're), that will often be mixed up. And if they are wrong, the person who is writing is usually a native speaker of (American/simplified) English...

Simplified? At least we use the proper soccer and not simply football. How generic.

I'm not even sure spell check is used in novels anymore. In Dungeon Crawler Carl I've seen two typos so far.

 

[Aeson]

How did the editor get inside you...?

Johnathan

The editor inserted himself between chapters. That's why the pages are sticky.

 

[Desdichado]

You mean like not using the title for your news outlet video on YouTube marked "do not use?" (So that "do not use" is the first part of the title?)

Or like actually saying aloud Fade In off the teleprompter when doing your feel good infomercial.

 

[Desdichado]

There was one adventure where a dragon was described as "usually sleeping with his horde". I guess it explains why there were so many half-dragons in 3e.

Lol, and I've never seen that one. Some like they're/their/there are simply typos related to moving fast. Wary/weary, especially when spoken wrong, is clearly a case of not knowing the difference. Same with canon/cannon, another older pet peeve of my inner editor. At least they are homonyms, though.

 

[el-remmen]

I think it’s just an eggcorn. Something that has become more prevalent as we have shifted towards post-literate orality (at least in the English speaking world).

Personally, I love egg corns and how the “misuse” of a word or phrase can actually make total sense as spoken.

 

[Umbran]

Has this always been the case, or has it just become something that I've noticed much more over the last few years.

The editor in me looks at the editor in you, and how you have presented what contextually is a query, but without the requisite question mark, and becomes wary and weary.

 

[Rabulias]

Can AI wreck a nice peach?

 

[MarkB]

Everybody is stupider thanks to our phones, and AI is only going to make it worse.

Talking of AI and editing troubles, I feel sorry for anyone called Al (short for Alan) these days, since in pretty much any commonly used screen font their name will be indistinguishable from AI.