“Remember when Trea was the shiny new thing we were all exited about, back before we kneeled beside our bed each night?”
The above was posted on The Good Phight, a semi-professional blog about the Philadelphia Phillies hosted on SBNation. In case your eyes zipped over it, the error is “exited” for the intended word “excited”.
Author’s role: This is an author who has a day job. Writing never danced on stage for him as a possible role in his adult life. We therefore rate this a 2.
Egregiousness of the error: This is either a typo or an autocorrect error the author missed. (I doubt any editing occurs on this site.) A plain typo rates a 1, an autocorrect a 2. I’m going with the benefit of the doubt here that he just plain forgot to hit the “C” key. It’s a 1.
My personal reaction rating: I like this site. I willingly suffer the numerous run-on sentences, the failed verb tenses, the just plain “WTF did he mean there” writing. This is more mild than mild for this site. I’m giving this a 0.
Final rating: 3.
all the voices in my head 