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Originally Posted by DNSB
Perhaps they do. I do some ebook editing & formatting as a sideline. Some of the authors I've worked with can and will do 'interesting' things to the English language.
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Sometimes it takes someone else to see things in your art, no matter what medium, that you did/put there without realizing it. When I was a music major I took composition lessons and the instructor made me perform all the pieces I wrote. When I did a piece for soprano and piano, I had to find a vocalist and her private instructor insisted I come to her lessons so she could hear us perform together. She taught me things about my own musical composition that I didn't know were there, such as one piano passage being evocative of strings and needing to be played that way. It was a humbling experience in a way, but also amazing.
Typos aren't quite the same, but I'll bet skilled copy editors regularly notice good and bad things that authors never realized they'd written.