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Location: CA | I could give a flying %@*&% if there are **** ass typos, just so there isn't any *****ing and cussing. :) I assure you, all those words were spelled correctly.
Will you proof my next book, my last editor missed a few thousand things. |
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Location: Broxton, Ga | it happens...........no one is perfect............. |
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Location: Peg-Leg Julia Grimm | There are professions that attention to detail and accuracy is highly desirable if not essential.
For instance a farrier will cripple a horse by shoeing them uneven or unbalanced. I care very much if my horse stays sound and performs well. I'm paying for a professional to do a good job.
When I place an order for anything. I want my order completed accurately. If they can't do that on a regular basis, I will take my business somewhere else.
I'm a bookkeeper. Do you suppose my employer cares much if I leave a 0 off when I deposit a check or invoice our customers? Just sayin'
By the stallion and out of the mare; always. Yes it matters. I've read articles about some horse winning something and I'm disgusted that the author is either clueless or careless. These are equine publications. Please hire people who care enough to get it right. |
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Location: My perfect world bubble | OregonBR - 2013-12-01 8:37 PM There are professions that attention to detail and accuracy is highly desirable if not essential.
For instance a farrier will cripple a horse by shoeing them uneven or unbalanced. I care very much if my horse stays sound and performs well. I'm paying for a professional to do a good job.
When I place an order for anything. I want my order completed accurately. If they can't do that on a regular basis, I will take my business somewhere else.
I'm a bookkeeper. Do you suppose my employer cares much if I leave a 0 off when I deposit a check or invoice our customers? Just sayin'
By the stallion and out of the mare; always. Yes it matters. I've read articles about some horse winning something and I'm disgusted that the author is either clueless or careless. These are equine publications. Please hire people who care enough to get it right.
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Location: Gainesville, TX | Quick note on phonics vs memorization, it started out that there was no regularized spelling at all. It was all done phonically. You might find the same word, even the same name, spelled three different ways on the same page in a medieval manuscript. It was the advent of printing that froze our spelling. Words were at one time spelled exactly like they sounded. Pre 1500 we actually said all the letters in a word like knight. Disadvantage--we lost some powerful context reading and creative ways of playing with language. Add the obsession with Latin grammar that occurred in the eighteenth century, when the first dictionaries were published, and you get our modern concerns with grammar and correctness that are unnatural representatives of living languages. Nonetheless consistent spelling and grammar provide a lot of advantages. For instance, even if you cannot understand someone's strong accent, consistent grammar rules and spelling will still allow you to communicate in a written medium.
In conclusion, phonics used to work great, especially because there were no standards. However standards have their uses. Thus BHN might need a new copy editor (the one responsible for proofreading) but not necessarily a new editor (usually responsible for content).
Edited by oija 2013-12-01 10:32 PM
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| They need online subscriptions so that it can be viewed and read immediately online. Save paper & it's pretty immediate. |
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Location: Phoenix | I can't take anyone seriously when they make spelling errors. I'm sorry--you drop a level in my book.
Grammar I can understand, because it's a little tricky.
I am a fabulous speller, and I'm not afraid to say it. I grew up reading books; I attribute my ability to spell to reading higher level books as a young kid.
I would expect to find typos within an article.....NOT on a cover.
Edited by hammer_time 2013-12-01 11:41 PM
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kmcsunshine - 2013-12-01 10:53 AM Fairweather - 2013-12-01 10:33 AM CYA Ranch - 2013-12-01 9:44 AM I love having a magazine that's strictly barrel racing info to read every month. I need all the help and tips I can get. 
I've written articles that have been published and have finished a couple of books. I'll be honest, I really don't get the spelling nazis of the world. And quite frankly don't get cattiness of this post. I'm sure the person that was responsible was probably already mortified and now they just feel crucified. And for what?
As a consumer, I could care less if the front cover has a typo. What I care about and what I'm paying for is the QUALITY of the information that's being conveyed, not whether or not it's spelled right. I'm intelligent enough to figure out the difference between "Lateral" and "Laternal" and what they're trying to relay.
When I submit my work for publication, I try to make sure I catch all the errors. I know that it doesn't look good to have typos and so I try my best to avoid those. I've never looked down my nose at someone else's work for having a spelling error or typo. We all make those kinds of mistakes. They're easy to make and they're easy to correct but what you can't correct is poor writing that has no substance to begin with.
I love my BHN regardless of whether or not something is spelled wrong. I don't buy it for the spelling anyhow. I hope they keep their editor and the staff they already have because I'm happy with them just the way they are.
Trusting SPELLCHECK is probably the reason it is wrong ... spellcheck screws up more correctly spelled words and changes words by one letter that changes my whole meaning in a sentence or paragraph ... I think spellcheck dumbs down everyone and gives them an excuse for their ignorance of the English language.. ... I would love to find a way to kill it off of my computer !! Learning to concentrate and memorize something is a talent these days ....!!
Everyone thinks their kids are brilliant computer users .... WRONG ... they have all of these picture aps that they scroll thru but have no idea how to find the website without them ..... to me they are being trained to be burger flippers and checkout picture monsters that don't even have any idea how to count change back to a customer .... If a kid can memorize all of those abs and games ... they can learn to use their brains to learn how to spell and do basic math ...
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Location: The South | hammer_time - 2013-12-01 11:40 PM
I can't take anyone seriously when they make spelling errors. I'm sorry--you drop a level in my book.
Grammar I can understand, because it's a little tricky.
I am a fabulous speller, and I'm not afraid to say it. I grew up reading books; I attribute my ability to spell to reading higher level books as a young kid.
I would expect to find typos within an article.....NOT on a cover.
Ditto! I was an avid reader when I was younger. I think that makes a huge impact on spelling ability. My friends always called me the "human spellcheck" when we were in school. It just came naturally to me.
I'm in speech therapy due to a brain injury from a horse accident and the therapists always compliment my vocabulary. I wish reading was important to young kids. I'm 29 and I feel like there's a huge difference in the way I grew up vs the kids nowadays. It's kind of sad. I don't hear of many kids reading for fun like I used to do. Nancy Drew was my hero :) |
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Location: Phoenix | LindsayJordan84 - 2013-12-01 10:14 PM hammer_time - 2013-12-01 11:40 PM I can't take anyone seriously when they make spelling errors. I'm sorry--you drop a level in my book.
Grammar I can understand, because it's a little tricky.
I am a fabulous speller, and I'm not afraid to say it. I grew up reading books; I attribute my ability to spell to reading higher level books as a young kid.
I would expect to find typos within an article.....NOT on a cover. Ditto! I was an avid reader when I was younger. I think that makes a huge impact on spelling ability. My friends always called me the "human spellcheck" when we were in school. It just came naturally to me. I'm in speech therapy due to a brain injury from a horse accident and the therapists always compliment my vocabulary. I wish reading was important to young kids. I'm 29 and I feel like there's a huge difference in the way I grew up vs the kids nowadays. It's kind of sad. I don't hear of many kids reading for fun like I used to do. Nancy Drew was my hero : )
OMG I think I had every single one of those yellow Nancy Drew books. LOVED THEM. Mom spoiled me with the hardback versions!
I always had to ride the bus to school--about 45 minutes on the bus gave me plenty of time to read to pass the time. I remember the high schoolers commenting on how I was reading the same book they were--and I was easily 4 grades below them. It just comes naturally to me. |
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| When I was in journalism school, if you didn't spell a word correctly or got someone's name wrong in a story, you got ZERO credit for that story. With names, I learned to ASK the person how to spell it - even something simple might not be as you would guess - John Smyth instead of John Smith for example. (Not that name-spelling has anything to do with this, sorry for my rant)!  |
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Location: Midwest | Um, I will wholeheartedly admit I am a horrible horrible speller.
however, someone is paid good money to be the editor for this publication. I'm sure they have a fact check (or the like) on staff as well. They should not have an error like this on the cover... "laternal" is not even a word (as far as I know)
I understand that people are only human.... but it's the cover for crying out loud.... |
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Location: Florida | Wait... are we talking about the December edition? I just got November like 2 weeks ago, so maybe before Janury? All I want for Christmas is my BHN, my BHN, my BHN... I'll be sure to give it a good head shake when it arrives, that'll teach it... then I suppose I'll just keep reading since that's about all I can do.  |
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Location: LouLouVille, OK | Maybe you all in my uncanning ability to read right over words that are not spelled correct...lol
it's either this, or I just don't give a crap... lol it's a toss up...lol
I didn't even notice, but then again I haven't sat down to "read" a BHN in years...
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | Laternal be a word.....
The laternal vaginae in the bandicoots Isoodon macrourus and Perameles nasuta wer long, straight and tabular, and consisted of a mascular sheath, an intermediate connective tissue layer and a luminal epithelium. The muscle layer had an inwardly projecting longitudinal ridge in I. macrourus but not in P. nasuta. In both species, a glassy layer was present immediately below the epithelium which was usually stratified columnar in type, although a non-keratinzing squamous type occured in small regions in some P. nasuta during pregnancy. The distance between the lateral vaginae in the birth canal region increased during pregnancy and reached a maximum at birth. The birth canal lacked an epithelial lining and was patent in some animals for more than half the lactation period. The allantoic stalks were often retained within the birth canal region throughout the lactation period and in some animals during the next pregnancy and even during the early part of the subsequent lactation |
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Location: Midwest | LRQHS - 2013-12-02 7:42 AM Laternal be a word.....
The laternal vaginae in the bandicoots Isoodon macrourus and Perameles nasuta wer long, straight and tabular, and consisted of a mascular sheath, an intermediate connective tissue layer and a luminal epithelium. The muscle layer had an inwardly projecting longitudinal ridge in I. macrourus but not in P. nasuta. In both species, a glassy layer was present immediately below the epithelium which was usually stratified columnar in type, although a non-keratinzing squamous type occured in small regions in some P. nasuta during pregnancy. The distance between the lateral vaginae in the birth canal region increased during pregnancy and reached a maximum at birth. The birth canal lacked an epithelial lining and was patent in some animals for more than half the lactation period. The allantoic stalks were often retained within the birth canal region throughout the lactation period and in some animals during the next pregnancy and even during the early part of the subsequent lactation
misspelling of lateral I do believe |
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | barrelracr131 - 2013-12-02 7:46 AM LRQHS - 2013-12-02 7:42 AM Laternal be a word.....
The laternal vaginae in the bandicoots Isoodon macrourus and Perameles nasuta wer long, straight and tabular, and consisted of a mascular sheath, an intermediate connective tissue layer and a luminal epithelium. The muscle layer had an inwardly projecting longitudinal ridge in I. macrourus but not in P. nasuta. In both species, a glassy layer was present immediately below the epithelium which was usually stratified columnar in type, although a non-keratinzing squamous type occured in small regions in some P. nasuta during pregnancy. The distance between the lateral vaginae in the birth canal region increased during pregnancy and reached a maximum at birth. The birth canal lacked an epithelial lining and was patent in some animals for more than half the lactation period. The allantoic stalks were often retained within the birth canal region throughout the lactation period and in some animals during the next pregnancy and even during the early part of the subsequent lactation
Blasted!!!!
Laternal is a movement isn't it??? Help me out here, my nerdy little friend lol... |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | LRQHS - 2013-12-02 7:49 AM barrelracr131 - 2013-12-02 7:46 AM LRQHS - 2013-12-02 7:42 AM Laternal be a word.....
The laternal vaginae in the bandicoots Isoodon macrourus and Perameles nasuta wer long, straight and tabular, and consisted of a mascular sheath, an intermediate connective tissue layer and a luminal epithelium. The muscle layer had an inwardly projecting longitudinal ridge in I. macrourus but not in P. nasuta. In both species, a glassy layer was present immediately below the epithelium which was usually stratified columnar in type, although a non-keratinzing squamous type occured in small regions in some P. nasuta during pregnancy. The distance between the lateral vaginae in the birth canal region increased during pregnancy and reached a maximum at birth. The birth canal lacked an epithelial lining and was patent in some animals for more than half the lactation period. The allantoic stalks were often retained within the birth canal region throughout the lactation period and in some animals during the next pregnancy and even during the early part of the subsequent lactation
Laternal is a movement isn't it??? Help me out here, my nerdy little friend lol...
Laternal is NOT a word. |
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Location: Midwest | LRQHS - 2013-12-02 7:49 AM barrelracr131 - 2013-12-02 7:46 AM LRQHS - 2013-12-02 7:42 AM Laternal be a word.....
The laternal vaginae in the bandicoots Isoodon macrourus and Perameles nasuta wer long, straight and tabular, and consisted of a mascular sheath, an intermediate connective tissue layer and a luminal epithelium. The muscle layer had an inwardly projecting longitudinal ridge in I. macrourus but not in P. nasuta. In both species, a glassy layer was present immediately below the epithelium which was usually stratified columnar in type, although a non-keratinzing squamous type occured in small regions in some P. nasuta during pregnancy. The distance between the lateral vaginae in the birth canal region increased during pregnancy and reached a maximum at birth. The birth canal lacked an epithelial lining and was patent in some animals for more than half the lactation period. The allantoic stalks were often retained within the birth canal region throughout the lactation period and in some animals during the next pregnancy and even during the early part of the subsequent lactation
Laternal is a movement isn't it??? Help me out here, my nerdy little friend lol...
I think you are thinking of lateral movement.... lol
I'm pretty sure it's not a word
My google search revealed nothing but misspellings of lateral or maternal lol |
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | Well, I am declaring it a word lol......
Laternal: a verb; a movement; side by side movement which makes a gradual turn to the north. |
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