Re: Muscle Car Review..
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 69hurstSC</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 68l30</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Often, what was edited and published was not what the author had written. Things get changed for odd reasons by people that should not be editing content. Something I recently learned. Don't shoot the author, hang the editor.
BIG </div></div>
What experience are you basing this statement on? </div></div>
I concur. I was the tech editor at MCR and Mopar Muscle from 1990-94 and sometimes I'd be floored by edits/corrections that were made by the people above me. I was, on more than one occasion, told that I should have been writing to a fifth grade reading level and the fact that I had a law degree meant that I was writing too far above the heads of my audience. Whether it was them making technical material no longer accurate or just plain "correcting" my correct grammer with incorrect grammer or slang, it drove me nuts.
Don't get me started on the phrase "it needs restored." Or how Charger Daytonas had fiberglass nose cones... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif[/img]
...and when I finally met someone there that had a better talent at grammer and syntax...I married her! (We just had our 23rd anniversary a couple weeks ago). [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/naughty.gif[/img]
...and she is still correcting me!
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