Confessions of a “proofspeaker”

I read this once:

My therapist told me “write letters to the people you hate and then burn them.”
Did that, but now I don’t know what to do with the letters.

🤣🤣🤣

The joke’s on you if you get your language a bit messed up like this…

Especially if you’re a writer.

And gosh… I’ve done that a few times! Mostly in daily emails.

But who remembers those a week… day… or minute after reading, right? 😅

I don’t need to tell you to proofread things, do I?

I love proofreading. But especially… proofspeaking.

*Frantically typing out a word definition to submit to Merriam-Webster…*

Proofspeaking: to read aloud and mark corrections in.

Even if it’s a short email… like this one I’m writing…

Doing this helps me make it sound right. So it flows like you’re talking to someone.

What with the number of missed words… and oddball spellings from my mind-of-their-own fingers…

Well! …

Fixing those has saved my hide more than a few times 😁

Best to sound like a complete fool while yabbering away to yourself…

Than have an unnecessary “whoopsie” out there in the wild.

I made a video for you… so you can now peer into the twisted reality of a daily email writer…

As he shows you “proofspeaking” in action:

Enjoy your midweek!

P.S. I did a couple more edits after I recorded the video. One of them was a significant deletion, as it made things a bit too clunky.

Can you spot what I removed?

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Chris Milham