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Lee Michaels[_3_] Lee Michaels[_3_] is offline
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"Swingman" wrote

Comment, either for or again, grammatical and speeling usuage and ur bount
to make a misteak yourslef.

Old english teacher karma??

I had a friend who wrote a number of small books and every time he published
one of them, he would get inundated with letters pointing out grammar and
spelling errors in the book. They were far more interested in this that
what he wrote about.

So on the very first page of each book written after that he had a huge
print disclaimer concerning errors. He made it clear that a large number of
people are obsessed with errors. They only read books to find the errors.
So he purposely included the errors in his books to meet these folk's needs.
So don't write him and tell him about the errors. He knew they were there.
He put them in the book just for them. If they wanted to write and talk
about the book subject matter, fine. But no error letters.

It worked. And he got a number of letter complimenting him on his Error
Memorandum.