Re: Editing issues

**"Marge Talt" m*@hort.net**

Fran,

I've noticed this also; seems like just the last few years.  Seems to
occur in just about any written media with jolting regularity.  I
have just assumed that it was partly lack of education in the younger
generation and partly the use of computers and dependence on
spell-checkers, which often pass a word because it is a word, not
because it's the right word.  I have also noticed an odd lack of
punctuation, which I put down to "writing style" or something.  It
often does make it difficult to figure out exactly what is being
said.

Seems like many of you on the list are print media editors - what is
your take on this issue?

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
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> From: fran gustman <fgustman@juno.com>
> 
> Am I just noticing bad editing more because I am in the field or is
> editing actually getter poorer? Today I was reading a book by a
well-know
> writer and I had to reread constantly for lack of punctuation. It
seems
> that semi-colons are no longer the in-punctuation but periods
haven't
> taken their places; this leads to a certain free-flow on the rapids
of
> verbiage, which I, for one, find it difficult to navigate. (How do
you
> like them metaphors? And just imagine that last sentence without
> punctuation.) Not only that, but there are poor phrasings and bad
> transitions which I wouldn't allow to be printed in my newsletters!
> 
> What gives?
> 
> Fran

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