Re: You know you're an incurable tech writer when...

[Keri Morgret <kerilists -at- morgret -dot- net>]

...your local newspaper is so bad that you write letters to the editor 
offering to install a spelling and grammar checker for them.

I've given up on the local paper though. Their latest one that got me was 
the teaser headline at the very top of the front page of the paper, 
referring to an article in another section, spoke of "duel religion 
families" at the holidays. This published on Christmas Day. The article had 
a sidebar about Hanukkah, saying that the holiday is minor, not mentioned 
in the Bible, last eight days, starts this evening and lasts eight days, 
ending December 27th. Well, they had written the sidebar for the week 
before and hadn't bothered to update it at all.

I miss the diversity of a bigger city (we have many farm workers from 
Mexico here, about half the town is of Hispanic decent, and it seems at 
least half the town is Catholic) and a real newspaper!

A coworker, who has also done some technical writing, once marked up a take 
out menu and redesigned the thing, correcting all of their spelling and 
grammar mistakes, and handed it back to them. Don't know if they ever did 
anything with it.

Keri

At 01:08 PM 1/8/2004, technical -at- theverbalist -dot- com wrote: