Re: proofreading lament

[John Mallinckrodt <ajmallinckro@CSUPomona.Edu>]

On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, David Bowman wrote:

> I am extremely blind to the typographical errors in my writing, and when
> writing email posts I am quite incapable of detecting a significant
> fraction of them while proofreading before their submission. 

You too, huh?

> I suspect that the one thing that I could do that would most help the
> situation is to submit *shorter posts*.  That didn't seem to work on my
> last erratum post though.  Maybe I should just submit nothing until I
> have my (English major) wife read through what I wrote, but this would
> not help the cause of domestic tranquility.

*My* (English professor) wife is gracious about reading my prose when it
matters, but I would second your sense that proofreading phys-l
posts--especially *your* phys-l posts ;-)--might constitute an
unnecessarily egregious strain on the marital bond.

> What proofreading tricks to the rest of you use to see your own typos?
> I'm getting desperate here.

EARTH CALLING DAVID BOWMAN, EARTH CALLING...  Yeah...  Hello, David?  Hi; 
reality here.  Listen.  Surely you jest!  I can't help but think that you
may have noticed that the audience you are speaking to is in *no* position
to be offering you advice along these lines. 

John
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