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celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 |
This message is SPAM free;) No it's not! Spam spam spam spam, Wonderful Spaaaaam! That felt soooo good. |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34060 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 |
Friends friends, friends friends, Wonderful friennnnnnds! |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 66180 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
This message is SPAM free;) Keep your friends close and your fiends closer... ;) The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Angela Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13131 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31 |
My sister came over for dinner tonight and now she and Eric are watching the final three episodes of Game of Thrones. It sounds very gory. I'm glad I'm not watching. For my delight and amusement this evening Eric handed me a draft of a 40 page journal article he wrote. It needs to be proofread before submission - lucky me!!! I think SOMEBODY owes SOMEBODY a big bouquet of flowers... |
James Sotherden Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 10436 Credit: 110,373,059 RAC: 54 |
My sister came over for dinner tonight and now she and Eric are watching the final three episodes of Game of Thrones. It sounds very gory. I'm glad I'm not watching. For my delight and amusement this evening Eric handed me a draft of a 40 page journal article he wrote. It needs to be proofread before submission - lucky me!!! Screw the flowers, I think its going to see a play again time. Or even better an opera:) [/quote] Old James |
James Sotherden Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 10436 Credit: 110,373,059 RAC: 54 |
I think SOMEBODY owes SOMEBODY a big bouquet of flowers... I think Eric needs to go to the Opera. In a Tux with tails. [/quote] Old James |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51477 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Eric is so lucky to have Angela as a kind trooper. She may or may not understand what she if proofreading. I know it would probably make MY head spin. "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." |
Angela Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13131 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31 |
Eric is so lucky to have Angela as a kind trooper. I am only looking for things not caught by spell and grammar checkers. A spell checker will not catch incorrect word usage. A grammar checker might notice a verb tense change mid-sentence, but not across larger passages of text. Also, it still takes a real person to know when a sentence is awkwardly written. I always find lots of little things that need correcting. I also still accidentally over-correct, because scientists have unique ways of expressing themselves at times. I just flag things that I think are "off" and Eric decides what does and does not get changed in the next draft. I certainly do not understand the technical aspects of Eric's papers. For general proofreading purposes this is actually an advantage. If I fully understood what I was reading, my eyes and my brain would fill in the gaps that a proofreader is tasked with finding. I have a Master's Degree in Speech Pathology, not a Ph.D in physics. I would not be able to spot an error in an equation, a table, a figure or a graph. Learning does occur on my part, but it only goes so far. Proofreading Eric's papers for more than 20 years has given me the ability to read an abstract and understand how the findings of that paper might shed some light on the general research questions involved in the study of interstellar medium. (And even better, now when I go to the obligatory "banquet" dinners at astronomy conferences, I know if I am standing in the buffet line next to somebody who is famous!!!) |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51477 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Eric is so lucky to have Angela as a kind trooper. You ubiquitous gurl, you. Meows of respect coming your way. "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." |
Angela Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13131 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31 |
You ubiquitous gurl, you. LOL!!! A spell checker will not catch incorrect word usage. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30903 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
I Hate NSF. Especially when it is a good customer. |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 66180 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
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tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
From "The UNIX programming environment" by B.W.Kernighan and R.Pike: style(1) and diction(1) analyze punctuation, grammar and language usage. The style and diction programs are described in "Computer aids for writers" by Lorinda Cherry, SIGPLAN Symposium on Text Manipulation, Portland, Oregon,(June 1981). Good old UNIX days. Tullio |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30903 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA It happened again! |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34060 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30903 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA No, rich folks with rubber checks. |
Es99 Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0 |
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA That's how they stay rich ;) Reality Internet Personality |
Donald L. Johnson Send message Joined: 5 Aug 02 Posts: 8240 Credit: 14,654,533 RAC: 20 |
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Oh, THAT NSF...... Donald Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30903 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
I hate quarter end! six different GD tax forms not counting payment coupons |
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