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Subject:Re: How to deal with incorrect editing From:"Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 29 Dec 2003 19:03:29 -0500
Rachael Lininger wrote:
> Bonnie Granat <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com> wrote:
>> Rachael Lininger wrote:
>
>>> The paragraphs were was changed to: "Like a lot of people, you may
>>> have received emails asking you to verify your Big Bank "account
>>> information" or other online services.
>
>> That just *has* to be a typo on your supervisor's part. It makes no
>> sense. It's grammatically fine, but the meaning is changed.
>> This is worth having another conversation about, in my opinion.
>
> Alas, no, it's not a typo. I read back what the new sentence meant
> and it didn't work.
>
> What would be the correct term for it? I know that the grammar is
ok,
> but it's still nonsensical. "Syntactically correct"?
>
> <snip, as "fraud" has been covered in depth>
>
I was mistaken. It wasn't a typo. He or she changed the order of your
original phrase and made it wrong:
- Your original phrase:
<to verify your "account information" for your Big Bank account or
other online services.>
got changed to:
<to verify your Big Bank "account information" or other online
services>
If he or she needed to muck around with it, it should have been
changed to:
<to verify your Big Bank "account information" or to verify your
personal information for other online services>.
He or she shouldn't have mucked around with it, in my opinion.
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