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Originally Posted by dadioflex
Immanant/imminent is one spelling mistake I came across recently when reading someone's work. They're both good words, though one is obviously more obscure than the other, so a spell-checker rides right over them.
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Interesting. I'll add them to the list, though I don't think I've used them yet.
This is my list of notes up to this point. It doesn't include everything I fix by any means, rather it's aimed at some of my worst habits and fixing some of the things that are easy to miss. I've now added your suggestion.
Editing notes
Extra words to be removed:
1. ‘that’
2. ‘of’
3. ‘of them’
4. ‘them’
5. ‘even’
6. ‘any’
7. ‘just’
8. ‘for’
Mistakes made with word spellings, to be checked with ctrl-f
1. ‘awhile’ vs. ‘a while’ vs. ‘for a while’ - Rule: ‘awhile’ has a silent ‘for’ in front of it.
2. ‘upon’ vs. ‘on’ - synonomous, but using 'upon' way too often.
Homonyms and other similar words.
2. week and weak, make sure each is correct.
3. waste and waist, make sure each is correct.
4. poor vs. pour
5.‘their’ ‘there’ ‘they’re’
6. ‘will’ ‘we’ll’ ‘well’
7. ‘through’ ‘throughout’ ‘thought’ ‘though’
8. ‘imminent’ ‘immanent’
Other issues:
1. Use of ‘she’ and ‘he’ multiple times in a sentence. One can usually be removed.
Example: “She doesn’t even trust Sir Danth and she doesn’t like me either.”
Remove the second ‘she’: “She doesn’t even trust Sir Danth and doesn’t like me either.”
2. Use of ‘that’, ‘which’ or ‘who’.
3. Use of words that make sentences vague, such as “He appeared to be tall. He’s either tall or not, be definite. ‘appear’, ‘seem’, ‘sort of’, ‘kind of’, ‘possibly’, ‘rather’ are all vague uses.
4. Using ‘as’ instead of because.
5. Options for said: told, stated, claimed, asked, answered, replied, responded, informed, advised, enlightened, pouted
6. Using ‘though’ instead of ‘although.