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Subject:Re: dangers of spellcheck From:linda_sims -at- vanguard -dot- com To:Al Geist <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com> Date:Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:01:48 -0500
Al Geist wrote on 10/30/2006 08:38:54 AM:
>
> Bonnie Granat wrote:
>
> Even if you read your own work over, you will still miss things like
> those--or far worse; that's why editors are needed to ensure quality in
> documentation. Writers cannot edit themselves and do as good a job as
> someone who is not as close to the text.
>
>
>
> I dissagree Bonni. I eddit my own work all teh tiem and never have a
> probelm with quantity.
> Al
>
> --
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> Al Geist
Even when you're reading over someone else's work, things can slip
through. There was one I almost let go deliberately because it was just so
delicious. I wound up correcting it, though. To this day, it remains my
favourite typo.
Oh, you wanted to know what it was? It was the salutation on a letter, and
it read (before correction):
Dear Sir or Madman
Lin Sims
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