Rule number one... proofreading must be done by someone who was not
involved in the writing before. The best way to make a proof reading is
to start from the end of the text (in French at least), word by word,
sentence by sentence. It's very boring and it doesn't help with
meaning-related errors ... only with orthographical and grammatical
errors.
Stephan
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De : olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] De la
part de Walt Wayman
Envoyé : mercredi 21 mars 2007 16:16
À : olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Objet : [OM] Re: OT Typos
It looks like it's going around. In a piece in today's Atlanta
Journal-Constitution about indoor marijuana growing, the sixth paragraph
begins, "Pruitt, who's office had unofficially coordinated the
far-ranging investigation..."
Whose mistake was that? Both the reporter's and the proofreader's.
Walt, who's proofread this twice and whose typing this time seems
correct.
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
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From: ScottGee1 <scottgee1@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> LOL!! Sounds very familiar . . . my "Send" icon should be relabeled,
"DOH!"
>
> ScottGee1
>
> On 3/21/07, Doug Smith <dhsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed March 21 2007 6:27 am, ScottGee1 wrote:
> > Mine can't so I just run it manually and hope the words I
> > > misspell are truly misspelled and not like "by" in the example
below.
> > > I often leave the "r" off of "your". Ain't no spell checker smart
> > > enough to catch that!
> >
> > The problem I have is that unless I get up and walk away for awhile
I will
> > read right over those errors and never notice them. I "know" what
is
> > typed :-). I see them right after I hit send.
>
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