I voted other for the content is much more important then correct grammar for me. However if the product has such poor editing that the rules are unclear consistently then its a problem. Even the best editor lets one or two mistakes slip so I can live with a few rule editing problems. But if the whole book is unclear due to the editing then its a real problem.
Do you care about quality editing in RPG supplements and press releases?
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Gez
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Editing is very important. I've not been dubbed a "grammar nazi" often for no reason. It annoys me enough to see things like their/there/they're confusions on forums... When similar mistakes happen in books, it annoys me each time my eyes see it, and I swear about those morons who can't reread what they wrote.
In press release, however, well... I very seldom read press release, so I care less. But I guess it's important too if they don't want to look like pathetic amateurs.
In press release, however, well... I very seldom read press release, so I care less. But I guess it's important too if they don't want to look like pathetic amateurs.
arnwyn said:
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That is no excuse. If I can't expect a minimal level of organized thought from a poster on a bulletin board, why should I expect any better from that poster in another medium?
Laziness in personal communication is often a good indication of laziness in material produced for publication.
tetsujin28
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Because it's the net, not publication. Most of us don't run grammer checks while we talk, eitherWraith Form said:Hmm. I sat and read every single post (even my own) and ironically, a large number of the posts had editing problems..! Interesting..!
Why can't people just do a brief proofread of their posts before hitting that cute little gray "Submit Reply" button?? Why oh why?? Such itchy trigger fingers!
Wraith Form
Explorer
tetsujin28 said:Most of us don't run grammer checks while we talk, either
Yes, that's true. And most Americans sound like idiots. I know, I'm one. (An American.........*AND* an idiot, at times, come to think of it.)
Don't you realize how utterly moronic and lazy we come across to others? How long does it take to proofread your own post? Like, thirty seconds? Cripes, are we *THAT* lazy and uninterested?
...Yet we cop a major attitude with some dip technician if a plane drops out of the sky in a buring fireball. "I didn't bother to double-check that fuel line because it's just a commercial flight."
What's the strange light I see on the horizon?
Oh, yeah, it's a flame war, never mind. (Hops off soap box.)
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Maggan
Writer for CY_BORG, Forbidden Lands and Dragonbane
Lazy Jane
Please also take into consideration that quite a few of us posting here do not have english as a first, or even second language.
Attributing poor spelling to laziness, is in my very personal opinion, not a correct assessment of the situation. For example, I post in between my work as a writer, and I don't always have the time to check the spelling, and absolutely not the grammar.
In the stuff I do that are actually published, there is proofreading and editing involved, something I most often don't find the time to do with online posting.
But if I were doing PR, I would do it. So I guess I might concede that bad spelling and bad grammar in PR is a sign of either some sort of incompetence, or just plain laziness.
Cheers!
M.
(who tried very hard to get everything written in this post as correct as I am able to. Thus, it took me about five times as long to write as normally, and I now have to forego posting anything else until after lunch!
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mythusmage said:
Please also take into consideration that quite a few of us posting here do not have english as a first, or even second language.
Attributing poor spelling to laziness, is in my very personal opinion, not a correct assessment of the situation. For example, I post in between my work as a writer, and I don't always have the time to check the spelling, and absolutely not the grammar.
In the stuff I do that are actually published, there is proofreading and editing involved, something I most often don't find the time to do with online posting.
But if I were doing PR, I would do it. So I guess I might concede that bad spelling and bad grammar in PR is a sign of either some sort of incompetence, or just plain laziness.
Cheers!
M.
(who tried very hard to get everything written in this post as correct as I am able to. Thus, it took me about five times as long to write as normally, and I now have to forego posting anything else until after lunch!
)
KingOfChaos
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No offense, but you guys are too damned picky. Who cares what the press release looks like as long as the book isn't filled with typos? I don't know about the rest of you, but I can't afford to pay an editor 1 cent a word to edit my posts before I make them. That's just ridiculous.
Let's see.
I started with the old White Box D&D, used it for years.
Switched to 1E when it first came out, used it for years.
Switched to 2E when it first came out, used it for years.
Replaced my 2E core books when my 1st printings fell apart, used them for years.
Switched to 3E when it first came out, have been using the 1st printing for a couple years now.
Have bought countless TSR/Wotc modules/accessories/box sets through the decades. Have bought stuff from Judges Guild/Roleaids/Aruduin back in the early days. Have bought a lot of D20 stuff since 3E.
Nope bad editing/grammer/errata has never really affected my purchase of any gaming material.
bushfire
I started with the old White Box D&D, used it for years.
Switched to 1E when it first came out, used it for years.
Switched to 2E when it first came out, used it for years.
Replaced my 2E core books when my 1st printings fell apart, used them for years.
Switched to 3E when it first came out, have been using the 1st printing for a couple years now.
Have bought countless TSR/Wotc modules/accessories/box sets through the decades. Have bought stuff from Judges Guild/Roleaids/Aruduin back in the early days. Have bought a lot of D20 stuff since 3E.
Nope bad editing/grammer/errata has never really affected my purchase of any gaming material.
bushfire
ichabod
Legned
mythusmage said:
Oh, give me a break. Conforming your spelling and grammar to what some old fuddyduddies have decreed is "correct" English has little (if anything) to do with organized thought. Language does not exist in text books. It exists in the minds of the people who use it.
Few if any of us are publishing anything! You want me to waste my time editing my posts, you pay me for it.
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