If you are quoting from a blog or forum post (as I do frequently) do you, or should you, correct spelling and grammar errors? If the "error" was such that it significantly altered the context of the excerpt, then maybe I would. (And hope it wasn't noticed?) Would you contact the person who made the comments and get their ok to edit their words? Interesting question. Take a passage signed ... Read full entry
Errors and excerpts excepted
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 24 July, 2008 to the comment subset
Today’s writing tip: scratch out don’t stretch out
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 15 July, 2008 to the comment subset
Kurt Vonnegut: don't waste your readers precious time writing words that are of no value to them... It may be that you, too, are capable of making necklaces for Cleopatra, so to speak. But your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does not illuminate your subject in some new and useful way, ... Read full entry
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