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f'lar
04-10-2001, 10:41 AM
I don't mean to be picky, but me thinks maybe a couple of your front page stories today could use a little more proofreading. I don't care really, but roommate is a print journalism major, and he's copy editor for the school paper this year and really good at spotting these kinds of mistakes.

Apostata
04-10-2001, 12:31 PM
Most of the headlines/segments are taken verbatim from the sites they are linking to. If there are spelling errors in the the segments (which can be common, particularly when sites can be partially administrated by people from various non-English-speaking countries) I'd say the originating article is the culprit.
It would seem a little tiresome, in this respect, to insert a [sic] after every typo. Do I notice mistakes once in a while? Yes, but it's not like we're reading Harper's Magazine here.

f'lar
04-10-2001, 02:12 PM
In the headline?

Apostata
04-10-2001, 03:46 PM
Why don't you locate the exact headline(s) you're refusing to mention, and send an email to Sensei so it can be corrected?

Otherwise - especially being vague about what's wrong in the first place - what kind of response were you expecting by posting it here?

Sensei
04-10-2001, 04:47 PM
I apoligize for the errors. Its really not that spelling isn't my strongpoint, but the way I type.

My typing style orm aybe even the keyboard, causes me to mispell words often. Specific words especially. Like the word "that" I often spell like this: "taht".

Its annoying and its starting to become invisible to me because I do it so often. Again sorry, I will try harder not to fook up.

Craig McPherson
04-11-2001, 10:31 AM
Here's an idea:

it's = "it is"
its = third-person neuter possessive form

Tyr-7BE
04-11-2001, 12:38 PM
Heh heh heh...ehhehhehe...you said "neuter".....heheeehehhehhehehe....

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