The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Funny thing is that, in my managerial days, I would go through resumes the same way. With a resume, however, there's also the "too good" end of things. As someone managing tech support and technical writing I needed to know how the prospective employee wrote, not the resume mill that they hired to write if for them.

Every published author that I know hires a proof reader to go over the final daft. I've done proofing on a couple of books as a first pass.

I am a professional writer, although I know my dashed-off posts here don't often look that way prior to me catching typos on second or third read.

I always want at least two edits on my pieces and will often get colleagues to look at my work before the editing stage and after I've run my work through Hemingway.app to catch the most egregious issues. (My sentences are often too long, which it's good about flagging.)

 

[overgeeked]

As your attorney, I advise you to rent a very fast car with no top. And you’ll need the cocaine. Tape recorder for special music. Acapulco shirts. Get the hell out of dodge for at least 48 hours.

I prefer absurdism to nihilism.

“We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers...and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.”

 

[eyeheartawk]

I prefer absurdism to nihilism.

We believe in nothing, Lebowski. Nothing.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

We believe in nothing, Lebowski. Nothing.

Say what you will about Lawful Evil, but at least it's an ethos.

 

[payn]

I am a professional writer, although I know my dashed-off posts here don't often look that way prior to me catching typos on second or third read.

I always want at least two edits on my pieces and will often get colleagues to look at my work before the editing stage and after I've run my work through Hemingway.app to catch the most egregious issues. (My sentences are often too long, which it's good about flagging.)

I'm curious if culturally we are just becoming more and more informal or I'm just old now and act like the squares I made fun of as a younger man?

 

[prabe]

I'm curious if culturally we are just becoming more and more informal or I'm just old now and act like the squares I made fun of as a younger man?

My money would be on both.

 

[payn]

My money would be on both.

Yeah all the emails and slack bits I go through with my partners at work are driving me mad. Too many emojis which is acceptable professionally now. I just want to belt out...

 

[Ryujin]

I am a professional writer, although I know my dashed-off posts here don't often look that way prior to me catching typos on second or third read.

I always want at least two edits on my pieces and will often get colleagues to look at my work before the editing stage and after I've run my work through Hemingway.app to catch the most egregious issues. (My sentences are often too long, which it's good about flagging.)

I used to run my stuff through the crappy Word tool. I had one boss who insisted that I should never write anything that was rated over a grade 9 student's comprehension. He'd read it in some industry article once, way back. I got tired of that really quickly.

 

[Ryujin]

I'm curious if culturally we are just becoming more and more informal or I'm just old now and act like the squares I made fun of as a younger man?

The answer is, "Yes."

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Yeah all the emails and slack bits I go through with my partners at work are driving me mad. Too many emojis which is acceptable professionally now. I just want to belt out...

I read somewhere that using punctuation in texts is considered rude by the youngest generation. And then I was like, "Oh, that explains a lot."

wait no oh that explains a lot