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Originally Posted by Sirtel
I can swallow a moderate amount of typos, even though they can be annoying. C'mon, English is not my native language and I'm not even all that good in it... and if I can spot a typo, why couldn't the author/proofreader/editor who presumably is a native speaker? Still, as I said, I can live with a few typos here and there. Constant misuse of homophones, apostrophes and the like stinks of sloppiness, though.
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Have you ever written a book? Have ever proof-read a novel-length book? Those little mistakes can be easy to miss. Words that are spelled right, but are the wrong word so the spell-catcher misses them. Missing words. It is hard to catch them all over 100,000 words.