dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby) (11/05/85)
I read the following in Barron's (10/25/85 edition): "...there are a handful of money managers who know how to get useful... information from these machines without becoming dependant..." Okay, one misspelled word; so what else? How about a totally senseless sentence? "My point, rather than the machine itself, is the huge and ever-growing reliance on the computer to tell the manager all that he needs to know." And, a little later on, a misprint: "It is no more of a magical machine that the oiuja board." PICKY, you say? Yes, if it were a little small-town paper or church bulletin I found these abominations in. But I expect to read a paper like Barron's without being assaulted with bad spelling and sentences which make no sense even upon the 10th reading. I have noted errors similar to this in the Memphis newspaper, which didn't surprise me; but now these gremlins are popping up in respectable newspapers who should know better. I find it shocking and obscene. I am writing my congressman. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Kirby ( ...!ihnp4!akgub!cylixd!dave) (The views expressed herein are the exclusive property of Dave Kirby. Any person, living or dead, found with the same or similar opinions will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of law.)
kort@hounx.UUCP (B.KORT) (11/14/85)
When I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area some years ago, there was a running joke that the composers of the San Francisco Chronicle were setting type with their toes. As for me, Writer's Workbench is my salvation, if I can only discipline myself to use it.