Errors

I thought this was a very long and boring piece of reading to be honest! It was almost hard to read and take in everything he was saying. But I think I got mainly what it was about: errors. Williams made me realize how many errors there are to make and that everyone makes them even grammarians! I feel like Williams rambles on and talks in circles but to me that is his point. He is saying how everything can be or has an error because of the way people interrupt them. For example when he says “the experience of the writer who creates the error; in the experience of the teacher who catches it; and in the mind of the grammarian-the E. B. White or Jacques Barzun or H. W. Fowler-who proposes it. Because error seems to exist in so many places, we should not be surprised that we do not agree among ourselves about how to identify it, or that we do not respond to the same error uniformly.“ I like how he demonstrates how grammarians make mistakes as well. I think he does this to further prove his point of the existence of errors. I think he is saying how the error is both in the reader and the writer. But almost more so in the reader in my opinion because the writer obviously thought what he or she wrote was correct at the time and the reader is the one saying no I think it is wrong, then when he points out how grammarians are making errors it is hard to tell right from wrong! Overall this reading was confusing but really made me think even though it was dull after I pushed through it, it wasn’t too bad.