"Subjective" Errors.

First of all, I would just like to say that I enjoyed his reference to Inspector Clouseau at the beginning of his second page. Mistakes, especially when in writing, are often piled one on top of another. I like that Williams called it the "Inspector Clouseau routine."

Secondly, I agree with Williams. Errors are everywhere; they are inevitable. I'm sure there will be several in this post by the time I post it. Perhaps errors are not a phenomenon in that people think, "Oh my word! I can't believe that person just made a mistake! That's impossible!" Instead, I think the phenomenon is that EVERYONE makes errors. No one is immune to imperfection. Even Williams himself said that he made at least one hundred errors just in that essay alone.

While I was reading through it, there were some things that didn't sound quite right, but I didn't think anything of them - after all, that was a published essay!

I like that Williams said it is strange that some mistakes jump off the page while others are hardly noticeable. Some errors are just more obvious to some people than they are to others. If I said, "I snuck in and took a cookie," some people wouldn't see a problem with that because "snuck" is what they are used to hearing. It is right - to them. To those same people, saying "I sneaked in and took a cookie," would sound wrong.

Errors can be subjective, I think. Not everyone talks or writes in the same way. While there are some things that really are just wrong, I do think there can be a little bit of wiggle room.

Maybe.