Do you know how sometimes socks disappear from your dryer. You are doing laundry on a Sunday and you discover that you have mysteriously lost one sock; leaving a useless single sock. You start to doubt yourself, whether you actually washed completed pairs of socks—eventually you get tired of dealing with such an arbitrary task that you just give up.
For a while, I have wondered how I have missed spelling/grammar errors in my writings. Let me explain. I can be rushed writers, making mistakes here and there. But when I write in a public forum, I’m usually careful to double check, sometimes even triple check my syntax.
A long time ago, I began to doubt myself….well my ability to check my writing. An opinion piece published in the Daily Democrat (written by me), had many spelling errors. After checking my original email exchange with the newspaper, I found out the mistake took place from their end.
Spelling errors were added to my opinion pieces by the Daily Democrat. Was it to discredit my opinion? Was it to defuse the message I wanted to share?
I thought I was the only one.
Until…..Exhibit 1.
Notice the comments, typos were inserted.
