Early morning typos - typos in general - are inevitable in writing about someone else's typos.
What strikes me is how rarely we are rude - there was a presentation the other day which was frankly shit and which should have been taken apart if it wasn't for the context being one of honouring someone. But a grad student steps out of line and suddenly we're a 1940s Latin master ripping the piss out of someone for confusing the sublatives.
Or maybe I'm being unnecessarily defensive a) coming out of a bad profreading experience on the Pratchett book and b) I am proofing a copy edit and I have found several potential motes and beams.
I'm promise not to take this exchange as carte blanche for radical sincerity the next time I review you...
(What was Lenin's line: "A discourse is a weapon with a worker at each end"? Some has been lost in translation I fear)
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Date: 2008-10-28 08:40 am (UTC)What strikes me is how rarely we are rude - there was a presentation the other day which was frankly shit and which should have been taken apart if it wasn't for the context being one of honouring someone. But a grad student steps out of line and suddenly we're a 1940s Latin master ripping the piss out of someone for confusing the sublatives.
Or maybe I'm being unnecessarily defensive a) coming out of a bad profreading experience on the Pratchett book and b) I am proofing a copy edit and I have found several potential motes and beams.
I'm promise not to take this exchange as carte blanche for radical sincerity the next time I review you...
(What was Lenin's line: "A discourse is a weapon with a worker at each end"? Some has been lost in translation I fear)