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Skitt's Law

Any post correcting an error in another post will contain at least one error itself.

Named for a Usenet poster. It is Muphry's law generalised beyond editing, and it survives because the corrector writes quickly while feeling secure.

In practice

  • A reply correcting somebody's grammar contains a misplaced apostrophe, and the reply took eleven seconds to write.
  • A correction issued in haste because the corrector felt secure is exactly the condition under which errors are made.
Subject
Communication & Media
Essay
The folk laws of argument and attention

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