RE: Typo vigilante

Subject: RE: Typo vigilante
From: "Lauren" <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>
To: "'John Posada'" <jposada99 -at- gmail -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:58:42 -0800

I've never seen the show Monk (I don't have cable), but I heard the main
character had a brother who was a technical writer. I didn't know there was
an obsessive compulsive character in the show. I thought the comment had a
writer tie-in.

Lauren

> From: John Posada

> No, it's a TV program on cable about an Obsesive Complusive detective
> with Tony Shaloob (sp?). He can't go through a day without lining up
> things on desks, facing things the same way, fixing crooked pictures,
> etc. Actually, quite funny.
>
> Why is is that the first thing anyone thinks is that everything is a
> knock on tech writers. Are we that insecure?
>
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Lauren <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net> wrote:
> > The first comment under that article states, "Monk?" Is
> that supposed to be
> > a crack against technical writers?
>
> John Posada


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