Unwillingness to proofread runs deep

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When you don’t check the spelling of what you’ve written, typos will make you look very foolish. Careful proofreading is needed for articles, blog posts, and PowerPoint presentations in speeches.

 

At the Gem State Patriot News on October 23, 2022 there is an article by Dr. John Livingston titled Political Grudges Run Deep. The third sentence in his third paragraph says that:

 

“Issues about self-protection, Right to Life, CRT teaching in our schools, and parenteral rights all require an application of a Providential predicate in my opinion.”

 

But what the heck are parenteral rights? The Cambridge Dictionary defines the adjective parental as:

 

“related to parents or to being a parent”

 

And they define another medical adjective, parenteral, as:

 

“relating to food or treatment that does not come through the digestive system, for example drugs that are injected into the veins or muscles”

 

I searched in the PubMed Central database at the National Library of Medicine for the phrase “parental rights” and found 926 full-text articles – but none for the phrase “parenteral rights.” One recent article by B. Isaac Gibson in the Family Court Review for July 2022 (Volume 60, number 3, pages 590 to 601) is titled The Portion of Goods That Falleth to Me: Parental rights, children’s rights, and medical decisions after COVID-19.