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Originally Posted by 6charlong
Ignoring what HarryT writes and typing too fast is what does it most of the time. Something I can't understand about this thread: is anyone writing without their spell checker? Word for Mac finds even those miscreant apostrophes.
I haven't studied English Literature for decades but does anyone know what writers like Defoe, Austen, the Brontes, Dickens and Twain did for an editor? Their language and styles are less consistent than edited modern books but they are still readable after all these years, still popular and still have something to add. I wonder, are we expecting too much of modern writers or too little of modern readers?
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They had editors, there are several dedications to them in a number of first editions; but they also had less need for them. In those days standards with regard to language, to grammar, to sentence structure were much higher. Schools actually taught.