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That is a good story Benzinha. Sometimes shock treatment is very effective. I had one of my students say this week that they thought editors were there to correct the spellings...!
posted by
Azur
on March 12, 2005 at 4:39 AM
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May, Mom told me a story yesterday. A writer for the newspaper that my
father wrote for, had a lady writer who was about to be fired. Her misspellings were the problem. The editor was tired of juvenile corrections. My father handed her a dictionary one day at lunch and said, "Look up every word that you submit to the paper from now on or you are going to be fired."
She took his advice to heart, never misspelled again and became a fairly famous writer of six or seven books later on......She was 33 when he gave her the dictionary.
Laziness. Lack of reading and writing skills, but ultimately, in the face of doing a good job, it's laziness or dictionaries, they must choose.
posted by
benzinha
on March 11, 2005 at 11:36 PM
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DarrkeThoughts. You are right. It was laziness. One of his group had a dictionary.
posted by
Azur
on March 11, 2005 at 10:29 AM
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Scriber, spellcheck is a good final back-up. Over-reliance on it means that people don't always understand the meanings of words and nor does spellcheck pick up nuances.
posted by
Azur
on March 11, 2005 at 10:24 AM
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The brain is so much faster than the dictionary! It's just laziness, and you can't blame him for trying. Hope his cubicle mates are good spellers!
posted by
DarrkeThoughts
on March 11, 2005 at 10:21 AM
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Spelling is important, but not as important as it was before computers and
spell check.
posted by
scriber
on March 11, 2005 at 10:17 AM
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Tigerprincess, you would think so. I also showed them my Strunk & White and recommended that.
posted by
Azur
on March 11, 2005 at 9:11 AM
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Oh my gosh. A journalism student of all people should know how to use a dictionary!!
posted by
tigerprincess
on March 11, 2005 at 7:27 AM
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