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Hi Azur!
From time to time, I also have the problem of not proofreading my articles carefully before I post it. I would quite upset about it when I find that out when coming back to read my own blog. Luckily I always check back my blog and correct any careless mistakes. I hope I will proofread my writing more carefully before I save and post it next time.
By the way, thank you for dropping by my blog. You mentioned Wanchai. I am now working in Wanchai. Glad that you know quite a lot about the place I live.
posted by
una01
on March 22, 2006 at 4:11 AM
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posted by
anglofinspirtion
on February 21, 2006 at 3:48 PM
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azur
I think I'd like teaching others to write. Sounds like fun.
posted by
avant-garde
on February 21, 2006 at 12:48 PM
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'Spellcheck, but not brain check' - good one.
Writers must write is one of the best mantras that exists. You hear so many writers say it too. Simple, but so often forgotten.
posted by
_dave_says_ack_
on February 21, 2006 at 10:02 AM
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Brain Check...
gets my vote for entry into Webster's.
Unfortunately, even people in the professional world make similar mistakes. I had a subordinate who couldn't comprehend exactly why spell check didn't catch their mistake when they used brake where they intended break.
I swear, I had to spend two hours showing them why it's important to know the difference between their, they're and there!
Although, as I've admitted elsewhere, I am the world's worst speller, and sometimes English grammar just confounds the heck outta me!
DM
posted by
Dennison..Mann
on February 21, 2006 at 7:37 AM
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"brain check"
I love that. Some of my private students are required to run their work through a computer program that "checks" their writing so the teacher doesn't have to do it.
Talk about no brain checking....
Their work's becoming disasterous...stylistically generic and still error-bound.
Oh well...more business for me.
posted by
thirtysomething
on February 21, 2006 at 7:08 AM
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Have a nice day...Take care...
posted by
_Symphony_
on February 21, 2006 at 3:07 AM
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Dear Azur,
I agree with you. We learn writing by writing and having some response. Thanks to some comments, we can notice the mistakes and learn how to improve our writing skills.
posted by
mira1
on February 21, 2006 at 12:32 AM
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Alanb
I couldn't agree more.
posted by
Azur
on February 20, 2006 at 10:08 PM
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Read before you write!
I think, along with writing to learn how to write, you have to _read_. If you read good writing, the patterns sink into your brain by osmosis.
- Alan
posted by
alanb
on February 20, 2006 at 9:02 PM
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I've often wondered who operates my soul
I agree, quite often I will go back and re-read a piece of mine and realize that I have made a stupid error. A dropped letter or correctly spelled, yet wrong, word.
Sometimes I catch 'em before they have winged off into the world but, alas, not always.
posted by
MerryAnne
on February 20, 2006 at 7:28 PM
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Azur (fingers and toes gettin' stiffer by the day...)
posted by
blogflogger
on February 20, 2006 at 4:21 PM
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when my daughter was young she always sang, "oop operator"
What she meant to sing was, "Smooth operator." We still tease her.
posted by
poetjpb
on February 20, 2006 at 4:05 PM
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