Last week, as I was reading my review of Julie Andrews’ memoir to a friend who likes my speaking voice, I found I often had to pause to mark a typo on the printout. Â I have since fixed those errors.
In the past few days, as I’ve been reviewing my posts on marriage, I found a similar number of mistakes. Â I guess I’m not the greatest proof-reader of my own work.
In this medium, our readers are often our editors. Â If you catch a mistake in any of my posts, would you please alert me to it? Â
Thanks!Â
Did you end that sentence with a preposition? I forget how that works.
I can definitely relate. I am always careful to keep anything I write free from spelling errors, grammatical mistakes, and every other type of writing blunder. Then after I checking what I’ve written multiple times, I send it out. Inevitably, if I check it again, I’ll still find bad errors.
Tahnkfully, my writnig is allways error free. I ascribe this to cleen living and pelenty of carless screwtiny. Mabe you could ware a tuxsedoe when you right as a way to remind yurself that you need to be purfect.
Don’t sweat it, Dan. Those of us who have attained a degree in English still find the need to run grammar & spell-check on all items.
Regards,
Peter H.
I usually just pay attention to spelling. Never much cared for English class. Sentence diagraming was the worst. I know I’m not a professional writer and don’t pretend to be. I just hammer it out and hope for the best.
Who has that kind of time!?
(Obviously kidding since you’re a much better writer than I)
Dan, here’s the thing. If I notice some bad typo and tell you via e-mail, that means I have to switch over to my e-mail account, go through a series of clicks as I interact with some slow-ish Web mail service, etc. I’m more likely to just write a quick comment on the post itself. But there have been 1-2 occasions when you’ve expressed not enjoying that. So, I no longer say anything.
OMG please don’t let’s start critiquing grammar and spelling. Or we are all gonna be here not discussing the issues.
Gene, no fear, I (at least) only ever used to do it when it was bad enough to state the opposite meaning of what the author probably intended.