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To: Salamander
What I find interesting is how I am very good at spotting OTHER people's errors in manuscripts.

As I get older, I'm actually getting better. i did a spellcheck on a piece today, and there was only one error in 15 pages. So maybe I'm just a slow learner. p>As a favor for someone I know I did a check on his senior final project and almost slit my wrists. Pygmies have better command of the English language.

69 posted on 07/02/2010 11:06:25 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Barack Obama, the Coleman Francis of presidents.)
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To: Darkwolf377

You forgot to close your paragraph bracket.

“p>”

/giggling and running like hell

Seriously, I do understand what you mean.

I think it’s because when *we* read what we’ve written, we see it as we “thought it” and are blind to the actual printed words.

It’s easy to be dispassionate yet critically vigilant about something someone else has written.

[and really, most people just skip over typos unless they’re unintentionally hysterically funny ones]....:)


72 posted on 07/02/2010 11:54:10 PM PDT by Salamander (If I'm too rough, tell me.......I'm so scared your little head will come off in my hands......)
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To: Darkwolf377; Salamander
" i did a spellcheck on a piece today, and there was only one error in 15 pages."

Do i (sic) need to say anything?
74 posted on 07/03/2010 12:01:29 AM PDT by shibumi (Soon, very soon, "Tsuru no Sugomori")
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