Right? Sometimes I just want to send notes to these editors and say they wouldn’t have lasted a week in an office when I was a secretary. That was back with IBM typewriters and we got it right the first time because retyping that would be a pain. My bosses would have put me on probation and fired me next time around. With all the equipment and ability to edit, the constant spelling and grammatical errors by professionals shock me.
Holly B remember how copies were made with the copier paper in between each sheet.....white out....
OMG!
I’m 73 and graduated from law school in 1967. Ah, how well do I remember all the slave typing and agonizing proof reading. I also remember carbon copies and the pure agony that correcting a typo in an original and four carbons involved. Computers have made it far easier to do it right and to do it wrong.
“With all the equipment and ability to edit, the constant spelling and grammatical errors by professionals shock me.”
Careful, there are people here who turn into werewolves at the mention of spelling, grammar, or punctuation.
That was back with IBM typewriters...”
Remember when they came out with the proportional spacing? What a riot. I do remember that the “i” took one space and I believe the “m” took three or four. My boss worked for Military Air Transport Service and wanted all the text on the left AND the right aligned so typed everything twice, once to note adjustments and the second time to incorporate them. And, of course, everything we did had at least 6 tissue copies which were made with carbon paper, plus one yellow tissue which was filed by subject and one pink tissue which was filed in date order in a read file.
Typing today is just a Sunday walk in the park by comparison.