tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post8915954897669507184..comments2024-03-26T23:41:10.319+00:00Comments on Authors Electric: There's always one • Lynne GarnerKatherine Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-19708364068666883802017-11-09T11:17:48.282+00:002017-11-09T11:17:48.282+00:00Sneaky, having the typo in the header. Does that m...Sneaky, having the typo in the header. Does that mean it was on every page? Eeek! Fran Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13497526684591168192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-31795696250194952902017-11-08T10:37:34.017+00:002017-11-08T10:37:34.017+00:00Yes, it's such a familiar experience, Lynne, a...Yes, it's such a familiar experience, Lynne, and infuriating when, after all the filters you clearly apply still fail to apprehend that rogue typo. In a talk on proof-reading their essays which I gave to students last week, I noticed - after umpteen re-writes, checks and double-checks, that the word 'original' had somehow acquired an extra 'i'. Worse, though, is in a book on essay-writing which I co-wrote with a colleague. She and I both edited and proof read it at least twice, as did two copy editors at the publishers. I sent a copy of it to me brother - an English teacher - who said nice things about it but pointed out that we'd either included or omitted the word 'not' from one sentence (I can't remember which) and thus comprehensively sabotaged the point we were making.Bill Kirtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16345949773423764808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-55291239785986481492017-11-08T09:36:37.460+00:002017-11-08T09:36:37.460+00:00I've just finished reading an expensive hardba...I've just finished reading an expensive hardback by a very well known author. The 'end' of one chapter is a half finished sentence ... or paragraph even. I've no idea how much is missing, but it's more than just the final full stop (I found that - a previous sentence had two!)<br /><br />That kind of thing makes me feel a little better about the ocassional typo in my own work, but I'd still rather there were none.Patsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12263765378083045973noreply@blogger.com