The power of the word.

Typographical mistakes tend to be the most forgivable ones a person can make. It is a far better thing to show someone an imperfectly written work and receive constructive criticism than to pour over every word, check for every mistake, and have nothing from which to learn.

After many years of working with the written word both in offices, as a medical transcriptionist, and now as a writer, I have found that it is important to have someone else go over your work because mistakes are easy to miss. You tend to read over mistakes and not see them when writing because the work becomes too familiar to your eye. As for making a mistake, it happens to everyone, I forgive myself and go on hoping that the main idea was not lost in the error.

I've only made one topic on MyLot thus far. Didn't notice my mistake until it was too late. I misspelled the word chocolate as chotolate.

Ah yes, there is deep power in words. However, mistakes happen, the best people are still going to have a typo here and there they don't catch. Whatever Douglas Adams might think, it is highly improbable that misspeaking or mistyping once will cause a massive war because someone thought you insulted their mother. It may, however, cause a giggle or two.