my guess:
error ----> intentional
mistake --> non-intentional
:roll:
That's an interesting theory, but I doubt whether most errors are intentional.
Here's another differentiation:
In applied linguists, an "error" as it applies in "Error Analysis" is a mistake that learners make because they do not have the linguistic competence to know better. A "mistake" is an error they make when they do know the correct form, but are under pressure, or aren't concentrating.
If I wrote "a understanding" or "What's it's meaning?", then I have made a "mistake", because I know that the correct forms are "
an understanding" and "What's
its meaning"
If a ESL student wrote that, it would sometimes be impossible to know if it was an error or a mistake - ie. do they know it's wrong?