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In “So Trump Makes Spelling Errors. In the Twitter Age, Whoo Doesn’t?” Farhad Manjoo shows popular spelling errors made by Donald Trump in his tweets, expressing that one puts too much weight on “spelling and other typographical mistakes,” stating that Twitter is a place for “immediacy” and when one chooses to pay more attention to errors in spelling it “blinds us to content” instead of paying attention to the “unvarnished, unfiltered view of [Trump’s]” or anyone else’s mind. Manjoo, displays in his article several examples of spelling mistakes made by world renowned politicians and his own spelling errors to demonstrate that criticizing grammatical errors in tweets, it is “elitist” and makes one not “focus on what people say” but leads to losing the grasp of the more essential crucial issue that is at stake. Manjoo showcases his affection for defending grammatical errors claiming that “people are attracted to spelling” and it is “a forgivable sin” for politicians to misspell as spelling correctly has become an important “mainstay of the modern public education system.” With the white supremacist march that took place in Virginia this year, it was a viral and significant topic regarding cultural oppression today. Trump tweeted praising the marches saying that “Sometimes you need …show more content…

He himself, being an editor for the New York Times, deliberately makes spelling errors to show that anyone can make grammar mistakes, but that is not what people should be concerned about. Manjoo misspells “trump” and even in the title of this article, he adds an extra letter in “who” to grasp the attention of the reader. He does this to prove the point that when focusing and criticizing on the spelling errors one would not read the article or in his defense, the tweet. Or would read it and completely ignore the fact that it was a “racist tweet” because they were too busy trying to be conceited with checking

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