Haha I love that antifeminist nutcase. If it wasn't for him, we'd be losing any awareness of feminist theory. Sadly.
Ah the semicolon. They are great! You know what? I very occasionally mix up colons, semi-colons and commas. Not all the time, but occasionally. So, I now tell editors when I am sending them written stuff that I don't want to do them out of a job, so I've got some mistakes in there. I kind of thought they'd think it was jokey and apologetic, but I actually had one who said to me that it wasn't their job to fix up my mistakes and instead they would be looking at (then listing off all of the things that editors have to do, as though I wasn't aware)... oh dear. Apparently a sense of humour wasn't one of the requirements.
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Date: 2008-08-22 07:29 am (UTC)Ah the semicolon. They are great! You know what? I very occasionally mix up colons, semi-colons and commas. Not all the time, but occasionally. So, I now tell editors when I am sending them written stuff that I don't want to do them out of a job, so I've got some mistakes in there. I kind of thought they'd think it was jokey and apologetic, but I actually had one who said to me that it wasn't their job to fix up my mistakes and instead they would be looking at (then listing off all of the things that editors have to do, as though I wasn't aware)... oh dear. Apparently a sense of humour wasn't one of the requirements.