Apostrophe abuse
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I’m an annoyed Wordler. Why are some forms of words okay for the answer, but some other forms are not?
For example, the past tense form of a word could be the answer, but apparently never a plural form. 
Also, I’ve gathered that while a past tense spelling of a verb that ends in -ed (such as added, or poked) is not okay, but an alternate past tense spelling (such as froze) is okay. Maybe, though, I’m just misremembering on this one (or on both!).
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Redundancy alert!
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“Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.”
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Ouch. I do not think my brain works that way. At least not after decades of proof reading legal briefs.
The kind with the sentences showing only the bottom half of the words are no problem though
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Lol, yes, a proof-reader’s nightmare, but still very easy to read. 
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Same. I can usually manage with only the tops - sometimes takes a bit more puzzling it out, tho.
I can read upside down stuff V easily. Mom couldn’t. I started reading aloud something that was upside down, and she freaked out. I didn’t know the ability was uncommon.
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…rscheearch…
…iprmoetnt…
They certainly don’t make it easy on the proof-reader.
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Is he in a comma, I mean coma?
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Only works if I read it fast. I get all stumbly if I try to slow down!
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This is what was crammed into us at the snooty prep school. I still have my copy, and it also lives on my machine, against memory lapses of the lessons learned between 1978-81.
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Looks brutal. I hope you nevertheless split your infinitives and ended sentences with prepositions.
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I’m merely human as well, but I’ve always tried to avoid them in my writing. 
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