I resent unproofread papers. I write "stopping here" and then I move to the end and write "Unproofread. Unacceptable. F."
It is worth remarking that F Scott Fitzgerald was an atrocious speller. Committed the most egregious blunders, routinely. But what writing.
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Still, I fully endorse the essential point. In general, writing littered with trivial, careless mistakes is a form of rudeness.
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It also strongly suggests a sort of generalized indifference and slovenliness that is largely inconsistent with high-quality production.
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A. Brilliant Writer is an atrocious speller. Therefore an atrocious speller is A. Brilliant Writer. *pause* Nah.
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This is elementary set theory. The set of atrocious spellers has a non-empty intersection with the set of brilliant writers. That is all.
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