Pet Peeve #237
One of my biggest pet peeves are editing errors- misspellings, leaving out words like "it" and "the", and missing punctuation. (I really like commas and think they should be far more liberally used by the general public.) Anyways, I can't help it, I was a teacher for a long time.
I know that I am usually writing my posts too quickly and that I often have errors.
Because of this I have made a deal with myself, that small mistakes are not worth spending a long time editing for. However, when the post is unreadable and annoying because I didn't proof it well enough, it sucks. Why even publish something then?
I am writing this because I just looked back at my UW-Madison post and someone could really ask- "did you really go to school there?" All the changes I made to the post in my final edit didn't save, so links were wrong, words were missing, and it sounded like a forth-grader wrote it.
Ugh.Sorry.
I know that I am usually writing my posts too quickly and that I often have errors.
Because of this I have made a deal with myself, that small mistakes are not worth spending a long time editing for. However, when the post is unreadable and annoying because I didn't proof it well enough, it sucks. Why even publish something then?
I am writing this because I just looked back at my UW-Madison post and someone could really ask- "did you really go to school there?" All the changes I made to the post in my final edit didn't save, so links were wrong, words were missing, and it sounded like a forth-grader wrote it.
Ugh.Sorry.
posted by KLOU | 10:04 AM
2 Comments:
Klou- you are your own worst critic. Though I completely identify. I went to college... I KNOW the difference between "your" and "you're". Yet sometimes the brain impulses don't make their way down to my fingers fast enough.
I was lamenting to a good friend who is a professional journalist and he said, "MK-- the story is what's important. Don't sweat the small stuff, that's what editors are for."
Isn't it fourth-grader? :-)
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