Are Typo-Tyrants Out of Touch?
There's a fascinating discussion underway at careers blogger and author Penelope Trunk's site. It's all abot typos. Sorry, it's all about typos.
See, Trunk says typo-tyrants who demand perfection of bloggers are out of touch, because there's "a new economy for writing. The focus has shifted toward taking risks with conversation and ideas, and away from hierarchical input (the editorial process) and perfection."
I think my favorite point in Trunk's argument is in "Spellchecker isn't perfect":
And anyway, it's nearly impossible for us to catch the errors that Spellchecker misses. If it were tenable to proofread one's own stuff, then there would never have been a copy editor to begin with. And there is research to show that if the first and last letter of a word are correct then our brain adjusts for all the letters in between.
So, I gesus my etidor will udnresntad this?
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First and lsat letters? So that's my prolbem!
trendiness is no excuse for laziness
Besides being an awfully revealing comment, the following quote is not true for most college educated adults who are interested in reading..well anything: "It's nearly impossible for us to catch the errors that Spellchecker misses." Punctuation, grammar and typos have a direct effect on our ability to understand written language the first time through. I don't know about you, but I was slowed down by the typos and syntax errors in the above article. If we want to be taken seriously and expect busy, intelligent people to give up valuable time to read our thoughts, we should respect communication that is both terse and easily digested on first read? Why not adopt a 250-word lexicon or speak in the dialog of the movie Idiocracy?
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