Re: Glaring errors in books
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.Re: Glaring errors in books
Re: Glaring errors in books
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.Re: Glaring errors in books
Entering French widows indeed.Re: Glaring errors in books
Re: Glaring errors in books
Re: Glaring errors in books
Re: Glaring errors in books
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.Re: Glaring errors in books
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