| It's a crime what laziness can do. That's the | | | | last line of defense. |
| downside of automation and software tools. | | | | For the sake of your readers, for the sake of |
| People get lazy. | | | | clarity and for the sake of personal |
| Don't get me wrong, I love technology and I | | | | pride...Proofread it! Read it out loud. Read it again |
| depend on Spell-checking software to help with | | | | and again just to be sure. Do you want potentially |
| my writing. It finds the typos but it does not find | | | | millions of people to think you are a bonehead? |
| all the spelling mistakes.It does not find the | | | | Every day surfing the web I encounter site after |
| contextual mistakes. What do I mean by that? | | | | site with so many errors; obvious stuff that a 3rd |
| Here's an example: "The kid's got heat." | | | | Grader could pick up on. These people are just |
| Maybe, the "kid" is a pitcher with a really wicked | | | | too darned busy building pop-ups to proofread |
| fastball. Or maybe, I meant to type "heart" as in: | | | | their copy. Rush, rush, rush. |
| "The kid's got heart." | | | | And these are people trying to sell me things! Do |
| The absence of one letter can give you two | | | | I want to buy from a Bonehead? Not bloody |
| wildly different interpretations. Ol' Robodunce, | | | | likely. |
| spellchecker won't spot gaffs like that. | | | | You may have noticed this is a pet peeve of |
| Remember, in school how you used to struggle | | | | mine. That being said, a person that does not pay |
| over the proper usage of "there, they're, and | | | | attention to the little details of publishing online |
| their?" Some people still struggle with those. | | | | may not pay attention to all the little details of |
| Grammar can be pretty tricky, so tricky that a | | | | good service. I can't imagine that I am the only |
| computer designed solely to correct grammatical | | | | one that jumps to that conclusion. |
| mistakes would have to be the size of a Pontiac, | | | | It could cost you a lot in sales and/or credibility. |
| or even a cruise ship. It would take a truckload of | | | | Proofread. Take the time before you upload. Don't |
| Einsteins to program it. | | | | be a Bonehead. |
| That leaves you, my friend, You, the author- the | | | | |