I have to admit, I’m probably among the world’s worst proofreaders. I think it’s partly that I get bored with looking for the details and try to grasp just the essence of what I am trying to say. Maybe it’s that because I know what I’m trying to say I breeze past the idea that I might not actually be saying it. But, I think if anyone is going to post something on a blog or a newsletter of some sort a little bit of self-respect dictates that proofreading is necessary.
This comes to mind today as I read a blog, linked from a newsletter that I read regularly, that had countless typos and errors in it. In some cases I would have thought that spellcheck might have alerted the writer to the issues, in other cases simply reading the document a second time would have helped.
Maybe I’m just out of touch with the “technology generation” (is that what we want to call people who have lived their whole lives connected to the internet?) and the need to communicate using the correct words and decent grammar is passé. But when I get distracted by the errors, I have to think that communication is getting lost.
I’m not sure that my opinion really matters. I’m sure most people in the world don’t care. But there, I shared my thoughts, and you apparently read them, so from here on, I will do my part to do my duty to use good grammar and spell words as correctly as I can.
