Hello Ward.

03 Jan 16 08:41, you wrote to Janis Kracht:


 JK>> I'm sure we aren't the only ones to have done that ... I used
 JK>> to debug code for some large companies like Dunn and Bradstreet,
 JK>> etc.  Doing that kind of thing did not happen then thank goodness
 JK>> hehe...  I think my eyes were a bit more 'rested' then 

 WD> I'm a contracted writer for some magazines and although I read and
 WD> re-read my stuff, they still find errors in it. (that's why I enjoy
 WD> gradually we are abandoning the spelling police here)

 WD> What I find remarkable, especially in web-journalism, is how many
 WD> writing-errors there are ... spelling, grammar, style ...  No money
 WD> for an editor-in-chief or at least a single person to proof-read.

 WD> In the past, articles had to be ready by a certain deadline and there
 WD> was time to maneuver, now they're press-ready when the author presses
 WD> ". Five seconds later you discern the greatest goof of all
 WD> times in your own writings.

I don't read at all for a living other than maybe technical books and
schematics. But I TRY to proof read what I write too. That's why it's
so annoying when I later see an obvious mistake. I think what is of
primary importance here is content rather than spelling.



Jeff

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