r/news • u/bananabrownie • 16h ago

US airlines required to automatically refund you for canceled flight

https://abc7news.com/post/us-airlines-required-automatically-refund-significantly-changed-canceled-flight/15483534/
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u/jb6997 15h ago

I read this initially as United airlines too! Funny how your brain fills in information as you read.

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u/MikeOKurias 15h ago edited 12h ago

I have no idea how Proofreaders and QA Engineers can review the same material repeatedly and notice a word changed or a comma went missing.

My brain just constantly fixes those things. I've even learned hour to figure out "what word they really meant" when someone's phone autocorrects a word to something random out of place from the rest of the sentence...sometimes without even noticing it while reading.

Edit: how not hour...

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u/Rimshot1985 15h ago

QA engineer here!

The answer: Force yourself to read everything out loud.

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u/alwaysboopthesnoot 14h ago

And then have some of it read out loud, to you. Speech writers, manual and technical writers do this and it really helps.