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I so hate it when you are reading a book you are well into the story and the characters lives and there it is a spelling mistake then once you find one there are more, and then it puts me off the story as I am then trying to find more.

It so annoys me I am even finding errors in well respected authors.
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My daughter in law is a proof reader and she said it is much worse now than 10 years ago...takes her longer with so many mistakes to correct.
Some of her clients are happy but others get quite niggled
That's a job I'd like to do. Did she take a specialist course?
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31-12-2013, 05:36 PM
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When I read a book I constantly watch for spelling mistakes but more so on how the author has structured a sentence, the overall 'feel' of the paragraphs and so on - grammar. I interests me how a sentence can be written in various ways and mean the same but appear so much smoother if a person has a complete understanding of the English language. I think it pays every now and then to have a brush up on your writing skills. I did a short story course once and that taught me loads. Might well do another soon to get rid of some uncertainties I have at the moment in fact.
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Entering French widows indeed.
I wouldn't pay attention to any mistakes in print today, unfamiliar words either, everybody makes up their own words now, especially writers, with the abolition of capital letters for all the things we used them for, as far as I can see it's anything goes, continue to enjoy your reading and when you get to a word you're unsure of just use your imagination and all will be fine. Give it another 100 years and words will be gone altogether, we'll all be going around nodding and grunting at each other, some are at it already.
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You just can't get good proof readers these days! Spelling mistakes etc. everywhere!
That is very troo
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31-12-2013, 08:40 PM
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That's a job I'd like to do. Did she take a specialist course?
Hi Jazz, I thought she did an OU course but it may well have been with a publishing company. I will find out
It fits in perfectly with her lifestyle - though when she is nearing the dead line, she often does it at night when everyone is in bed.
Apparently, there is quite a demand for trained proofreaders and copy-editors. What with books, brochures, catalogues and magazines ... I wish you luck if you do decide to have a go.
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Hi Jazz, I thought she did an OU course but it may well have been with a publishing company. I will find out
It fits in perfectly with her lifestyle - though when she is nearing the dead line, she often does it at night when everyone is in bed.
Apparently, there is quite a demand for trained proofreaders and copy-editors. What with books, brochures, catalogues and magazines ... I wish you luck if you do decide to have a go.
Thanks for your answer. I wasn't sure they'd still be in demand. I've considered an online course but I tried it a few years ago without completion.
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31-12-2013, 10:39 PM
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Well, I still don't get it!
Try this, a ventriloquist can talk without moving his lips, making it appear that the sound is coming from elswhere, a similar technique with a sensitive microphone close to the area of the neck where the voice box is would enable the person receiving sound from the microphone to hear speech.
Though not totally in keeping with the dictionary definition of the word used the principal is similar.
I take it you are reading a spy novel?
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My partner was a newspaper proof reader before he retrained as a journalist. He worked on newspapers for nearly 50 years and has watched the deterioration of standards over those years. Nowadays journalists have to have a Uni degree in journalism yet often can't spell or write a sentence correctly. Of course, they don't have proof readers any more - just spell checkers and a quick re-read by a night sub-editor, if they have time.

I was a high school English teacher (and also taught typing for a while) so we both have a low tolerance for typos and spelling errors. The funny thing is that he is almost 100% accurate with the written word but quite often mispronounces words. I think it's because he read avidly as a young man but didn't have anyone to discuss books with and didn't hear the correct pronunciation and made up his own. Quite odd sometimes!
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Originally Posted by welshlion ->
Try this, a ventriloquist can talk without moving his lips, making it appear that the sound is coming from elswhere, a similar technique with a sensitive microphone close to the area of the neck where the voice box is would enable the person receiving sound from the microphone to hear speech.
Though not totally in keeping with the dictionary definition of the word used the principal is similar.
I take it you are reading a spy novel?

Not so much a spy novel but one where a team of people, and a trained dog, are trying to locate a missing pregnant woman kidnapped by a gang for experimentall reasons and probably don't want to be overheard by the enemies.
 
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