RE: What to look for in a technical editor

["Bill Swallow" <wswallow -at- nycap -dot- rr -dot- com>]

Exactly. No, you're not missing something. In cases where you are writing
for an extremely technical audience, they will more than not read right over
the grammatical goof and absorb the correctly-written technical information.

Bill Swallow
wswallow -at- nycap -dot- rr -dot- com


::: -----Original Message-----
::: An editor encounters an ungrammatical and therefore ambiguous and 
::: therefore logically meaningless string of words (not technically a 
::: sentence). The editor moves a comma, rendering the string 
::: of words into 
::: a well-formed sentence that has an unambigous meaning. 
::: This, somehow, 
::: causes text that was formerly technically correct to become 
::: technically 
::: incorrect. Therefore, Bill and you conclude, the reader is 
::: better served 
::: by the unedited text.
::: 
::: Am I missing something?



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