TAYPO
For a non-native English-speaking nation, we sure are snooty when others commit mistakes to the point of branding them stupid, ignorant, incompetent, mediocre, and an embarrassment. My five-decade old memory bank can't recall the same level of magnitude when local typos are made. We even find them cute.
As a journalism graduate, a marketing communication-degree holder, a writer, writing teacher, proofreader, copyeditor, copywriter, and a fledgling publisher, let me tell you that no one is immune from committing a mistake. Professionals make them due to a hectic schedule, other urgent deadlines, too many cooks, no-longer-fresh eyes, fatigue, satiation, etc. Jane Austen and Ernest Hemingway were awful spellers. Who wants to call them stupid?
I admit that some mistakes are funny and I have fun with them. I even file them and make a quiz game out of my collection with my students. (My grammar Nazi folder goes all the way back to 1992.) I want to show them that professionals are not perfect all the time. But to make fun of the people behind them is another thing. Spellchecks and Grammarly can correct a typo but unkindness taints one's being.
"Why do you look at the [insignificant] speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice and acknowledge the [egregious] log that is in your own eye?"
Mt. 7:3, TAB
"Why do you look at the [insignificant] speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice and acknowledge the [egregious] log that is in your own eye?"
Mt. 7:3, TAB