I work for two very different editors regularly. One is cheerful and happy to
pick up errors (except of fact) and even do some rewriting to suit his ideal of
the best style for an article. The other gets snippy if I let a single bloody
typo go through to the keeper and never does any reworking at all. He makes me
wonder why he thinks he's a bloody editor.
I recently dropped him a hint when he grumbled by pointing out that Jane
Austen's original punctuation was so bad that her editor deserved a co-author
credit.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 11/03/2011, at 9:44 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> As for the misspelling, those rarely bother me in e-mail lists. Tangled
> fingers seems to be a rather common byproduct of electronic communication.
> Now, if this were the newsroom and one had several layers of editors to pass
> one's musings through, that might be a different story.
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