I’ve been a professional writer my whole career. So, how embarrassing is it to have a careless typo in the very first sentence of last month’s eLetter! Even worse when an astute reader – and friend – called me on it within a few minutes of publication.
I quickly responded to him, sharing this self-serving bit of my philosophy about proofreading and errors.
“I do care about quality and proofread everything personally as well as using a spell checker. But, if I tried to be perfect, it would be an affront to The All Mighty and that would be a bad idea.
Actually, it will be an interesting test of my ‘Typo Theory’: With busy business readers in a hurry, 90% of them won’t notice a minor mistake. And of the 10% who do notice it, 90% of them won’t care that much. So, doing the math, 65 readers should notice the error and 6.5 should give a damn … one down, 5.5 to go.’
Actually, no one else commented about the typo so far, so I conclude that my Theory works. If any of the rest of you noticed it, no one else cared enough to tease me about it. Case closed.
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