Do typos in the title indicate carelessness?
@RonElFran (1214)
Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
September 23, 2018 1:04pm CST
Yesterday I wrote a post about keyboards. Today I noticed that in the title I spelled it "keybards." How in the world did I miss that? I don't know, but I did.
I used to think that when people had typos or errors in the title of their article it indicated that they were extremely careless. After all, the title is the first thing people see, and you'd expect a careful writer to be very sure that the title is right. But I'm beginning to change my mind about that. I'm pretty obsessive about errors in my writing, but I still end up publishing things that I later find mistakes in.
I guess I just have to accept the fact that, as the saying goes, to err is human - even in the title of your post.
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@JudyEv (340452)
• Rockingham, Australia
24 Sep 18
I've just finished telling someone they have an error in their title. It's happened to me a few times and I consider myself a careful proof-reader.
@sweetashoney (3597)
• United States
23 Sep 18
Everyone can make mistakes while they are writing an article, that's understandable. The ones that I think the writer is careless or just doesn't care is the ones where there are mistakes throughout the article. These are the type of people in my opinion don't need to be writing things to be viewed by others