For example, in this sentence by the the time you are done reading you will have already skipped over the double “the”.
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Not just “the.” It’s a matter of expectations. Having spent a lot of time editing, I am more sensitive to such things, and get annoyed at the number of mistakes that slip through in printed texts. But if you’re not an editor of proof-reader, you are probably reading just for meaning, not with as tuned an eye for such things. That’s why.
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