My interpretation of 'The Phenomenology of Error'

I thought Williams had an interesting perspective about grammar. He was neither a grammarian nor completely against correct grammar. I feel his overall view can be summed up in this quote "The objective consequence of the error simply do not equal those of an atrocity, or even of clumsiness" (Williams, 153). In less wordy words it simply means that grammar mistakes like "their" instead of "they're" aren't the end of the world. Williams becomes so redundant after he makes this point that his essay becomes a rant against excessive grammar correction. So instead of doing the same and ranting about what I liked and didn't like I'm going to make four points on what I thought was interesting.
1) The comparison between grammatical and social blunders was pretty funny. It also made a good point. In relation to what really matters in this life I would much rather forget a comma every once in a while then do something really embarrassing like face plant in the mud while walking to class.
2) The content and context of whatever is being said is always more important then the (lack of) grammar. I can assume we've all seen Facebook statuses that are something to the effect of "I hte my life every1 blames every thing on mi (DRAMA)!!!"
Though posts like these are over dramatic and become very annoying I have to remind myself that someone is trying to communicate some type of distress and I should pay attention to them (if I care about them).
3) Though I agree with Williams that grammatical errors are hardly ever a crisis (unless you're commanding a robot to do you're bidding by text message and you accidentally text your robot "Feed the dog Greg" instead of texting your brother). There are mistakes that do bother me. In all honesty they shouldn't. I understand they're not a big deal and I've never pointed them out to anyone unless asked to proof read their writing. The one that bothers me the most though, is when people use fifty "dots" is their ellipses....................................... Ellipses have three "dots" or four if their thought trails off at the end of sentence.
4) I like the point Williams made about who decides what is "correct grammar". English is a living language so it really is always changing. Williams uses an example of an editor who rejected the use of impact as a verb though it has been used as such since 1601. Besides the fact that our language is always changing we also need to factor in dialect. Believe it not, the way people speak in Kent is different then the way people speak where I am from in Athens, Ohio even though it's in the same state and only three hours away. The localized dialect of Kent is that of the "Great Lakes" accent sounding similarly to that of people in Michigan or upper parts of Illinois. The general population of Athens has an Appalachian accent. Neither is better or worse, it's just different.
Language is fascinating and complex but it loses so much beauty when it's picked apart just for the sake of grammar. If everyone used perfect grammar all the time we wouldn't have books like Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs or Ulysses by James Joyce (talk about run on sentences). By breaking a few rules every now and then in writing it allows for more creative thought for more free thinking.