errors- week 4

As soon as I started reading the reading for this week and Williams began speaking about how people do not know the differences. I automatically began thinking about how frustrating it is that some of my friends say your when they mean you're and say to instead of too or two, whether its formally or informally. It's also annoying when people say "me and my friend..." instead of my friend and I and when someone is telling a story saying "and I was like and she was like.." very annoying. I admit I used to be in that habit of overusing the word like, but now I am trying to get past that. After I read about the first page I realized many things, this is long, boring and confusing. Pretty much like you said it would be. I also found some of the reading to be very amusing about how poorly our society behaves today. I believe that William's main point about errors are they are caused by the writer and the grammarian's handbook. His point is also that errors come in many different forms and that to each person an error is something different. I think this comes from all teachers or professors teach differently causing the students to use what they were previously taught to learn that their previous teacher taught them improperly. He makes his point by telling stories of how he came about errors in his work and how the same things kept happening over and over again. I feel that much of his writing went over my head instead of into my head because I had no idea what he was saying most of the time. Many of the words he used I had never heard of and had no idea what they meant which made for a very difficult reading. I definitely see how this was the hardest reading by far and I hope it gets easier again!