I've noticed, as I read more and more on the Internet, that some people seem to quite easily lose track of their train of thought in the process of simply typing a sentence. Here's an example from a comment left on Paul Krugman's blog:
"[Conservatives] want to believe that health care in America is far superior to health care in Canada is bad."
Apparently the writer, by the time he or she got to the end of their original thought (a grand total of 16 words after starting), couldn't remember - nor be bothered to look back and re-read - what they had written at the start of the sentence! I've seen this many times, even in "articles" published on websites associated with "real" news or entertainment vehicles. Is this just another manifestation of ADHD, as it's swept through the last generation or two?
[Update Jul 31/09: Here's another typical example, this time from Blog @ Newsarama:
"You’ve probably already seen the image to the right already, which DC released at San Diego..."
Note that the writer of this article appears to have forgotten that he'd already used the word "already" already, and was all ready to use it again... just six words later!]
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