ERROR

I think the whole "phenomenon "with error is that it is highly subjective. Different people and different contexts will elicit different responses (if any) to an "error." Williams talks about how some errors can be very infuriating and offensive to some people while other errors are merely overlooked. He pointed out that social errors require more apologizing and amending than grammatical errors, such as "an elbow bump," so why do readers place so much emphasis on seemingly meaningless errors found in a text? Williams mentions that it is far from an "atrocity" in the real sense of offensive. A social error requires an apology, an excuse, one may even be harshly reprimanded; a grammatical error doesn't require an "Oh, I'm sorry."

I really liked how Williams pointed out the difficulty in studying this concept of "error." He said that scholars will always have an answer and that answer will coordinate with what one thinks is right according to some handbook by some other scholar, even if society has been using a word/phrase in a particular way for centuries. He talked about how the rule maker makes trivial errors in his own writing, and no one (not even himself) notices. So why do we even question errors?
If we are asked to look for errors we will surely find them. Error exist in so many places but if the content is still understandable and the point has been made, why must one search for errors that will only make the writing seem less credible? If we are looking for something to be wrong we will find it! Error is "in the eye of the beholder." It is found in the writer, the reader, and the rule maker. Error can never be avoided but one can choose whether or not it is necessary to address.

Also, I now keep thinking about all the errors I am sure I have made.