You’re typing away madly, the thoughts are pouring from your head like a clear mountain stream, bursting with life, energy, cutting wit! It’s marvelous!! Then you sit back afterwards, your piece of literary heaven staring back at you, and begin to read it with such pride…
er.. what is that?! .. how did that word get in there? I wanted the word ‘right’ and there, in a dark spot on my paragraph, was ‘write’. Yes, it sounds the same, but it’s not the word that I wanted to write.
Aghast at the error, you deflate, humbled how your mind and your fingers seem to have lost their collective spirit. Or, have they actually been following the tread of the thought to the letter. Literally. What if we are all speaking wrong? Speech follows thought as well, just as writing does. There is a list of words in the English language that sound the same, but are spelled different and mean totally different things. How is anyone to tell?! Can you imagine actually saying the wrong words, on purpose?! Who’d know? Now, how amusing would that be? So, what is ‘right’ but ‘write’…with a mis-spelling.
