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RE: Honestly -- when an SME completely REWRITES your text ... GEEZ!
Subject:RE: Honestly -- when an SME completely REWRITES your text ... GEEZ! From:"Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:16:19 -0400
David's spill-chucker turning "verbatim" into "verboten" isn't so bad.
My own spill-chucker has embarrassed me worse than that. I'd happily
trade it for a really good automatic math-checker: Just yesterday, I
sent an e-mail where I added 4+2 and got... 5.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nancy Allison
> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 9:46 AM
> To: Downing, David
> Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: Honestly -- when an SME completely REWRITES your
> text ... GEEZ!
>
> I dunno what he made of your "verbatim" substitution, but
> I'm still scratching my head over the slepp-checker.
>
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