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Originally Posted by neilmarr
Wondered when you'd pop up Moejoe. There's a huge difference between a small typo in an early morning quick and informal forum post when checking through an overnight deluge of something like fourteen full pages of new MR entries (especially on a netbook with a mini-keyboard and with the l/k lying right next to each other between my large finger tips) and a supposeldy serious book pitch.
My sincere apologies if it put you off your breakfast, mate. But a slip like that from a chap like me, with forty-five years of professional writing experience, does seem to underline my point that EVERYONE needs an editor or at least a sound proof reader. I employ editors and proofers for my own published work, by the way.
Some here feel I might be forgiven my LOL *lool*. Few would forgive the errors of an author whose error-peppered pitch is meant to promote his own 'published' book
Neil
PS: You will notice here that the subject line reads 'shorta' funny. Which is not so much an innocent typo as an informal word usage that suggests the exact opposite of what is, presumably, intended -- 'short of funny' not 'sort of funny'. Although I blush over my own wee typo, the effect is nowhere near as damaging as this error and all the others in the OP. I am supposed to be attracted to a book that includes 'poorly drawn' illustrations and is short of funny and from a chap who seems unaware of spelling, grammar and punctuation? N
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You know what, I'll take error-prone, awkward grammar and unprofessonial if someone promises me I'll never have to see the words 'free', 'coupon' and 'limited time' on MR ever again. It's not the quirky and incorrect that annoys me, it's the bland, carbon-copied, 'professionally pitched' crap being flogged like Shamwows (tm) in Writers' Corner that really pinches my inch.