Spellcheckers are a lot cheaper!! Particularly in news sub-editing there
will be parts of a shift where no work relevant to that day's edition is
being done (in balance parts of the shift are a madhouse of activity).
From an accountant's point of view we need 'less' sub-editors.
And it is much
-Original Message-
From: rudy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 6:35 PM
To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com
Subject: Re:[wdvltalk] secondary meanings, incorrect spellings, et cetera
One thing that always rings my bell when I see it is people who use
mute when
At 01:42 10/02/2005, you wrote:
My biggest cringe is your for you're - I even see it
used that way in newspapers! Don't they still use editors?
Sure they do - but the editor of today is the product of modern educational
correctness where to correct a child about anything is to leave them
One thing that always rings my bell when I see it
is people who use mute when it is abundantly
clear from the context that they mean moot, ...
don't get me started
among errors that annoy me most are loose for lose (verb transitive)
and the spoken eck cetera
rudy
The WDVL
expresso is another good one.
-Original Message-
From: rudy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 3:35 PM
To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com
Subject: Re:[wdvltalk] secondary meanings, incorrect spellings, et
cetera
One thing that always rings my bell when I see
My biggest cringe is your for you're - I even see it
used that way in newspapers! Don't they still use editors?
Cheers,
Tom
At 06:35 PM 2/9/2005 -0500, you wrote:
One thing that always rings my bell when I see it
is people who use mute when it is abundantly
clear from the context that they
