Klarinet Archive - Posting 000214.txt from 2005/11

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Dan's unique spelling conventions.
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:35:55 -0500

Of all the people who notice my mistakes (and goodness knows I
make a lot of them, to be sure), the last one who should comment
is Oliver. The copies that he places on line for people to
download and/or listen to are so sloppily done, so rife with
wrong notes and outdated conventions, with poor or inauthentic
sources being offered as something of value, that it amuses me to
have him criticize my many spelling errors.

Tit for tat Oliver.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Wakeling [mailto:joseph.wakeling@-----.net]
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 12:02 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] Dan's unique spelling conventions.

Oliver Seely wrote:
> Proofreading always enhances one's credibility, particularly
when one
> is waxing eloquent about the need to spell things correctly.
It is
> then that a misspelling of the very word under consideration
offers
> more than a little amusement. One would be of a mind to say,
"Well,
> the word ought or ought not to be spelled the way our
correspondent
> recommends, but he certainly isn't taking the care which he so
> casually demands of others."

The UK newspaper The Guardian used to print the front page only
at the
very last minute before the paper went into distribution. This,
of
course, was in the days when newspaper print still required
mechanical
rather than computer-based typesetting, and everything was done
so fast
and so close to the deadline that effective proofreading and
corrections
were not possible. The frequent and highly amusing spelling
errors even
extended to the name of the paper, which as a result became
popularly
known as The Grauniad.

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