Comments on: Why Spell Check is an Editor’s Secret Weapon http://blog.jennescalona.com/2009/07/31/why-spell-check-is-an-editor%e2%80%99s-secret-weapon/ Jennifer Escalona tells it like it is Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:23:40 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jennifer Escalona http://blog.jennescalona.com/2009/07/31/why-spell-check-is-an-editor%e2%80%99s-secret-weapon/comment-page-1/#comment-671 Jennifer Escalona Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:56:56 +0000 http://blog.jennescalona.com/?p=802#comment-671 Glad to be of assistance, Paratrooper Philip! Glad to be of assistance, Paratrooper Philip!

]]> By: Philip http://blog.jennescalona.com/2009/07/31/why-spell-check-is-an-editor%e2%80%99s-secret-weapon/comment-page-1/#comment-670 Philip Thu, 15 Apr 2010 03:27:59 +0000 http://blog.jennescalona.com/?p=802#comment-670 You've just made tomorrow's Spell Check so much more amusing. You’ve just made tomorrow’s Spell Check so much more amusing.

]]> By: Jenn Escalona http://blog.jennescalona.com/2009/07/31/why-spell-check-is-an-editor%e2%80%99s-secret-weapon/comment-page-1/#comment-322 Jenn Escalona Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:51:00 +0000 http://blog.jennescalona.com/?p=802#comment-322 For what its worth, I too was imagining the green army man, but sans pen. I always knew spell check was useful, but didn't really put two and two together on *how* useful it was until I started my recent editing assignment. Of course, since the darn thing is over 350 pages long, there's plenty of room for crazy writing patterns to emerge! For what its worth, I too was imagining the green army man, but sans pen. I always knew spell check was useful, but didn’t really put two and two together on *how* useful it was until I started my recent editing assignment. Of course, since the darn thing is over 350 pages long, there’s plenty of room for crazy writing patterns to emerge!

]]> By: Natalia Maldonado http://blog.jennescalona.com/2009/07/31/why-spell-check-is-an-editor%e2%80%99s-secret-weapon/comment-page-1/#comment-321 Natalia Maldonado Sat, 01 Aug 2009 22:06:34 +0000 http://blog.jennescalona.com/?p=802#comment-321 Your analogy made me laugh. I don't know why but I imagined a green plastic toy soldier armed with a giant red sharpie, walking across a document and making editing marks over letters the size of his foot (he'd love some spell check, for sure!). Good point about needing to know an authors' patterns. At a magazine I used to copy edit, the EIC's letter was always full of "you're vs your" problems and "they're vs their," so I knew to pay especially close attention. Luckily, spell check has smarted up over the years and catches those kinds of errors now. You're right that it's a good first line of defense; that way we can take over with the heavy lifting of bigger writing issues! .-= Natalia Maldonado´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.nmaldonado.com/blog/?p=100" rel="nofollow">My anti-meeting writers’ group & why I love it.</a> =-. Your analogy made me laugh. I don’t know why but I imagined a green plastic toy soldier armed with a giant red sharpie, walking across a document and making editing marks over letters the size of his foot (he’d love some spell check, for sure!).

Good point about needing to know an authors’ patterns. At a magazine I used to copy edit, the EIC’s letter was always full of “you’re vs your” problems and “they’re vs their,” so I knew to pay especially close attention. Luckily, spell check has smarted up over the years and catches those kinds of errors now. You’re right that it’s a good first line of defense; that way we can take over with the heavy lifting of bigger writing issues!
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]]> By: Jenn Escalona http://blog.jennescalona.com/2009/07/31/why-spell-check-is-an-editor%e2%80%99s-secret-weapon/comment-page-1/#comment-320 Jenn Escalona Sat, 01 Aug 2009 20:32:20 +0000 http://blog.jennescalona.com/?p=802#comment-320 I'm lucky enough that I just happened to download a browser (Google Chrome) that does that for me. Now if only it did a good, thorough grammar check! Thanks for the tip! I’m lucky enough that I just happened to download a browser (Google Chrome) that does that for me. Now if only it did a good, thorough grammar check! Thanks for the tip!

]]> By: John Soares http://blog.jennescalona.com/2009/07/31/why-spell-check-is-an-editor%e2%80%99s-secret-weapon/comment-page-1/#comment-319 John Soares Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:41:42 +0000 http://blog.jennescalona.com/?p=802#comment-319 Jenn, for the last eight years I've been using a real-time spell checker that checks everything I type, regardless of what program I'm using. It's been very helpful to me, especially for projects that required me to type in text on forms on a website. .-= John Soares´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheWritingCollegeTextbookSupplementsBlog/~3/xdwwFBLRslI/" rel="nofollow">Tips for Becoming a Better Textbook Supplements Writer</a> =-. Jenn, for the last eight years I’ve been using a real-time spell checker that checks everything I type, regardless of what program I’m using. It’s been very helpful to me, especially for projects that required me to type in text on forms on a website.
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