Jul 24
Normally, I’m not the type of card carrying English major to correct mistakes, but I couldn’t resist this little correction.
Turns out that I didn’t buy the book at all. My wife wants to wait for a better time to read it. So, no trip to the airport. (Turns out the grocery store had copies at $20.99.) All the critical stuff has been spoiled for me already.
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- toeteaknow: well, since it was a post, the answer I guess is ‘yes’ and not ‘maybe’….. …maybe not? ttk
- pinakidion: what rock said
- Rock: “Is Pinakidion ever going to post again?”
- salguod: Is that an answer to a question that I missed?
- xray342: How’s this for cryptic? $ echo ‘pinakidion’ | md5 16da6556b9ba8a411a6f4251591eae2b
Its nice to see how the editor responded to you’re advise about there grammar mistake. Sometimes people let criticism effect them in a bad way. But this editor did not loose his cool. He raised up and admitted his mistake. He excepted your correction well. If I was you I would be pretty pleased.
So… In the preceding paragraph, how many errors did I make? ;->
Reuters has a Good, Bad & the Ugly section to deal with stuff like this. Some of the notes sent to the editor are really nasty.
At least eight and two infractions of commonly accepted style.
It[']s nice to see how the editor responded to you’re [your]advise [advice]about there [their] grammar mistake. Sometimes[,] people let criticism effect[affect] them[;] in a bad way [unnecessary][however,]But[delete] this editor did not loose [lose] his cool. He raised [rose] up and admitted his mistake. He excepted [accepted] your correction[.] well[unnecessary]. If I was[were] you[,] I would be pretty[very] pleased.
It’s nice to see how the editor responded to your advice about their grammar mistake. Sometimes, people let criticism affect them; however, this editor did not lose his cool. He rose up and admitted his mistake. He accepted your correction. If I were you, I would be very pleased.
Now, the questions is: How many mistakes did I make? ;^)
English Literature, not English Grammar. The diploma says, “Medieval British Literature, Non-Chaucer” beneath English Literature and Language.
Rock knows a good editor, ask him.
The book is cheaper at Target.