I realized this is why I can’t be editor on my own creative writing. With hundreds of pages of work, it’s very easy for the writer to already know what they intended to say, and interpret that from the page on a quick glance.

Caught it on waterlemons.

I got a T shirt eons ago ($7, couldn’t stop myself) that said “I have a dig bick/You that read wrong/You read that wrong too”. I can’t wait to find a younger shithead to gift it to now that I’m old enough that I’m expected to be vaguely dignified.

My brain is so good at detecting patterns that I realize that I shouldn’t even engage with this

I don’t consider a test writer being an insufferable pedantic asshole to be any kind of reflection of my own abilities.

“Oh, you didn’t consciously turn off 3.5 billion years of evolved pattern recognition that functions correctly 99.9% of the time for the purpose of getting my disingenuous gotcha question right, on a rigidly timed test designed to put you under intense time pressure? lol”

I’ll tell you where you can stick your test.

Another boomer meme 🥱

This level of pedantry is not good to foster unless you want all of your words, systems, and rules questioned.

Burned once in primary school by this trick. Never again. Fuck you teachers for doing dumb shit like this.

This is too accurate, I have failed exams by missreading the question