The Phenomenology of error

In this reading Joseph Williams does make some valid points, even though at times it was hard to follow what he was saying. On pages 155-158 he discussed what makes an error, or better yet who determines what an error is? Or what errors are more important than others. This indirectly ties into what we go over in class about electronic mediums. Errors in texts are often overlooked, things are abbreviated and punctuation in some cases is completly forgotten about. I believe that he's shocked that only certain things are caught while writing a story or an essay. He states that many writers do mess up but it slips by because some people almost weigh errors based on importance. The smaller gramatical and wrong word usage sometimes slip by writers and editors and make it into books while other things are watched much more strictly. I also noticed that he seems more or less mad that people who call themselves gramarians are making grammatical errors that you wouldnt expect from someone in their position. Near the end of the reading he sums it up by basically saying that errors are inevitable but people arent going back and correcting them as they should, he is trying to get a movement and have people care about grammar.