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Re: Lego Creator Activity Book
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Tue, 2 Feb 1999 15:16:34 GMT
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On Mon, 1 Feb 1999 21:49:46 GMT, "Jeff Stembel" <Dragonelf1@aol.com>
wrote:

This reminds me:  How many here pick up on all or almost all misspellings in
books and stuff?  The sheer amount I see makes me wonder if it is just me, or
do publishers tend to employ bad editors?

I don't know.  I can't estimate the errors I miss.  But the ones I
notice tend to bother me.  Any more than one or two per book.  Or if
they appear in headlines.  Those are the worst.

Steve
--
Today, I'm happy. *Really* happy.



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  Re: Lego Creator Activity Book
 
This isn't NITPICK FORUM on the IBMTEXT conferencing disk, but what the heck! (...) The above paragraph contains two sentence fragments, and a number of poorly structured sentences that suffer from excessive choppyness. Suggested rewrite: "I don't (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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