Typos
November 22nd 2007 13:54
There’s a great tendency to rush when you’re writing posts – and an equally great tendency (on my part, anyway) to forget to proofread your work. I try to discipline myself to do it, but sometimes, if I’m feeling under pressure, I forget.
One of my daughters acts as a proofreader for me, and every so often I get an email pointing out a slip I’ve made. She sent me one this morning but at first I couldn’t understand what she was getting at. She seemed to be passing on a bit of news to me, and then had put a completely odd sentence following.
She’d written: see on the news that someone in Britain has lost two disks containing the details 25 million persons' private information.
This was the bit I thought she was passing on as news; I totally forgot that I’d written the sentence a few days before.
Then she’d added:
An 'of' in there maybe????
This sentence mystified me and I had to write back to her. It was only when she told me she was doing some proofreading that I realised what she meant.
I read somewhere once that Mozart was listening to some music and expressed his pleasure with it. Then he asked, Who wrote it?
You did, he was told.
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