Oddbean new post about login | logout @2a9a6bfb The type of errors Word's spell checker won't pick up because they're still words. I usually find a few of those blunders while self-editing and my editor finds what I've missed. It would annoy me as a reader to find too many of these.
@a3976b27 @2a9a6bfb It feels like a kind of incompetence to me. Sure they’re words, no denying that. But most seem like absurdly wrong homonyms. If these are words they’ve only ever heard — and never seen in print — I’m not sure I like the idea of buying their writing.
@43b5df12 Yeah, no excuse for so many getting through and it does seem like there's some confusion as to meanings. 🤷♀️ My blunders tended to be more along the line of I knew the distinction but my dumb fingers/old brain used the wrong one. For example, I would type rein rather than reign (or vice versa) and berate myself later 😆 Stuff like that goes on my editing search term spreadsheet so it never happens again. @2a9a6bfb