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<p>[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 773111, member: 57463"]<b>That's not an error. It's poetic lie sense.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>How often do I find my errors? Not often enough, I admit, but that is what editors are for. I mean, I do check my facts and I am responsible for that part of it. Of course, I deliver clean copy and of course I proofread my material. But we all make mistakes. You are supposed to pay attention to the red squigglies but like that right there has a red squiggly under the plural, though not the singular, so you learn to ignore them. Fifteen years ago, I worked a project with another writer and we turned out stuff purposely to mess up the MS-Word checker. Our manager would call us into his office to explain why what we did was not an error even though MS-Word said it was.</p><p><br /></p><p>How do you explain that the reference is wrong? I mean, you get a Whitman Folder for Mercuries and there is a space for the 1941/2, even though it is just another error, not a true variety.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 773111, member: 57463"][b]That's not an error. It's poetic lie sense.[/b] How often do I find my errors? Not often enough, I admit, but that is what editors are for. I mean, I do check my facts and I am responsible for that part of it. Of course, I deliver clean copy and of course I proofread my material. But we all make mistakes. You are supposed to pay attention to the red squigglies but like that right there has a red squiggly under the plural, though not the singular, so you learn to ignore them. Fifteen years ago, I worked a project with another writer and we turned out stuff purposely to mess up the MS-Word checker. Our manager would call us into his office to explain why what we did was not an error even though MS-Word said it was. How do you explain that the reference is wrong? I mean, you get a Whitman Folder for Mercuries and there is a space for the 1941/2, even though it is just another error, not a true variety.[/QUOTE]
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