proof-reading fun

David Colburn dacolb at GMAIL.COM
Thu Mar 31 06:53:22 UTC 2005


>
> >"If you can drop me an e-mail that am to let me know when you'll be on
> >campus, I'll try to be in my office."
>
>
> I think this represents one of the problems of progress. I have actually had
> things like that make it into print.
>
> It is so easy to make small changes in a ms.  I have sent copy off to
> editors, and taking one last look, make a small change in a word of phrase
> without noticing its effect on other parts of the sentence. In the olden
> days, when to change one word you needed to retype the entire page, such
> glitches didn't happen. Other ones did.

I don't see the proof-reading problem in the quoted sentence, but I'll
take another look at it tomorrow am, and maybe I'll notice something
that I'm missing this pm.



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