Speaking of DRM

[VydorScope]

Originally Posted by crich70

What I meant was if the 1st and last letter are right in a given word it's easy for the brain to skip over errors like having the letters in a word mixed up. You still have to have the right number of letters or nearly so, but if you do and the 1st and last letter are right the brain often corrects things for you when reading. That's probably one reason editors are needed. To catch such errors, though even they don't catch everything of course.

No on e is perfect, but one big reason I need an editor is more for my brain autocorrecting to what I KNOW I wrote, rather then what I wrote. If that makes any sense.

[PaulineDesigns]

Yup! Sometimes it's really hard to step back from something you've created and see it with fresh eyes.

[crich70]

Originally Posted by PaulineDesigns

Yup! Sometimes it's really hard to step back from something you've created and see it with fresh eyes.

I think that's a given no matter what is being written. You might say that it's written 3 times.

1. What we thought we wrote
2. What we actually wrote
3. What others think we wrote

[VydorScope]

Originally Posted by crich70

I think that's a given no matter what is being written. You might say that it's written 3 times.

1. What we thought we wrote
2. What we actually wrote
3. What others think we wrote

Part of what I do in my daily life is interpret/translate ancient languages and I look at it from several levels, simular to what you list:


1) What the author intended
2) What the gramar/vocab means
3) What the intended audience would have understood it to mean
4) What I think it means (assuming Im not #3)

I strive to reach 1, but with out the author to ask that can be impossible, still you do the best you can. Same basic idea I think applies here.