"Harold and Susan Vordos" wrote in message
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"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
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This is what people like me get paid to do. g

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Ed Huntress

It must be quite amusing for you to read posts from folks like me! I'm so
lost in all the things you've been talking about that I'll likely never
get
any of it straight. :-)

Like I said, Harold, we aren't writing for publication here, and I
ordinarily would have let Rick's license-taking with the quotation marks
just slide right by. I'm not here to copy-edit other peoples' posts. I don't
pay more than passing attention to it. I just bring these things up when
there's a reason to, or when somebody questions it.

Most of the people here are surprisingly good writers in their own way, IMO.
Very few people have trouble saying what they mean, nor being understood.
It's best to treat this kind of communication as something like
over-the-back-fence speech. You're consistently clear and understandable,
even with complex subjects. That's all that matters here.

There are some good reasons to be fussy with writing rules, but none of
those reasons appear in a NG. Today I was working on healthcare copy --
pharmaceutical and medical-device brochures. There, being ambiguous could,
in theory, cost someone his life. So they pour on the copy editing and
proofreading, and they accept only experts to do the job. The people I work
with now are some of the best I've ever seen. Even the proofreaders
typically have advanced degrees in English or in medical writing. Sheesh.

'Can't write their way out of a bag of newsprint, but they sure can edit.
d8-)

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Ed Huntress