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Amazing how small errors in a text start to degrade your confidence in the content. At the outset the sentences are clear and mostly correct. As it goes on smal

Amazing how small errors in a text start to degrade your confidence in the content. At the outset the sentences are clear and mostly correct. As it goes on small errors start to appear and occasionally the entire meaning of a sentence becomes unclear. By the end, reading his slightly dramatic flourish, you get the feeling that he wrote with some emotion and wasn't tending to the language very carefully. On the one hand you can say these are merely typos. On the other you could say they reflect a lack of clarity, a lack of care. I know I find it hard to ignore.

nkkollaw 9y ago
Meh. It's full of articles with "it's" instead of "its". It's the internet. You're (oh, yes--and "your" instead of "you're") not going to have a good time if you stop at typos or grammatical errors instead of just trying to see if what you read is interesting or not.
tomcooks 9y ago
As a non English speaker some passages were difficult do understand and I had to re-read them several time; I can now attribute that to typos and feel smarter~
Erlich_Bachman 9y ago
You're not the only one to feel this way. I think this is a very valid position, there is nothing superstitious about it. Any user of (the English in this case) language is able to (easily learn to) write without major mistakes, make their sentences proper, make their thoughts clear. If they haven't done so, it definitely hints at a lack of care, or being in a rush, or simply not respecting the language and/or their readers. Not respecting them in a sense that the author tries to overlay a part of their own work as a writer (the work of forming coherent and correct language structure) onto the reader, making them decipher author's thoughts which were not formed into a commonly accepted standard. Are there published documents out there with a lot of mistakes that definitely have high quality information and research? Yes of course there are. But the odds are not in their favor.

nkkollaw 9y ago

Meh. It's full of articles with "it's" instead of "its". It's the internet. You're (oh, yes--and "your" instead of "you're") not going to have a good time if you stop at typos or grammatical errors instead of just trying to see if what you read is interesting or not.

tomcooks 9y ago

As a non English speaker some passages were difficult do understand and I had to re-read them several time; I can now attribute that to typos and feel smarter~

Erlich_Bachman 9y ago

You're not the only one to feel this way. I think this is a very valid position, there is nothing superstitious about it. Any user of (the English in this case) language is able to (easily learn to) write without major mistakes, make their sentences proper, make their thoughts clear. If they haven't done so, it definitely hints at a lack of care, or being in a rush, or simply not respecting the language and/or their readers. Not respecting them in a sense that the author tries to overlay a part of their own work as a writer (the work of forming coherent and correct language structure) onto the reader, making them decipher author's thoughts which were not formed into a commonly accepted standard. Are there published documents out there with a lot of mistakes that definitely have high quality information and research? Yes of course there are. But the odds are not in their favor.