Re: Picking nits?

["Lisa Bronson" <Lisa -dot- Bronson -at- ipaper -dot- com>]

<snip>
Speaking as one who hopes never to have to pick actual nits*, I'd have to
say that any reasonably good editor should be an expert at picking nits:
leave them unpicked, and they inevitably mature into something really
unpleasant. If the devil's in the details, then the editor should
definitely
sweat getting the details right--even the small details.

* Nit: the egg of a louse or other parasitic insect (also: the insect
itself
when it's young)
</snip>


And as a mother of children in daycare and elementary school who *has* had
to pick actual nits, I can tell you actual *horror* stories about the
importance of getting rid of all the nits the first time!!!!

I could make an incredible analogy of this!!  hmmmm... maybe I will when
time permits, and submit it to Eric for the humor page!!  ;-)

Lisa Bronson
Associate Technical Writer
Evergreen Packaging Equipment
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
319-399-3239



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