Yes, they're putting words together more than they used to. I get lots of them my Ranked spelling wants to separate. Backseat is just one of a great many examples.
Evan----- Original Message ----- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 9:21 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: A proofreading problem to watch out for.
HI Sue, Well, cringe now! Many current authors have done away with hyphens in words exactly like goodlooking. And my personal favorite peave, since when is backseat one word? But it's printed like that all of the time. I feel so old and stodgy! Mayrie -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of siss52 Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 5:44 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: A proofreading problem to watch out for. Hi Mayrie,I guess I have become used to seeing this in the books I read for pleasure, because it no longer bugs me. It would bug me more if hyphenated words werewritten as one united word, for instance goodlooking. Just my thought. Sue S. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 6:08 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] A proofreading problem to watch out for. Hi Everyone, A very diligent volunteer pointed out a problem to me with many books in the bookshare collection. Very often, words that should behyphenated "good-looking" or "high-fashion" have a space after the hyphen sothat the word appears as two words with the first followed by a hyphen followed by a space. Proofreaders who use braille or who read with their eyes are much less likely to miss reuniting these hyphenated words. I confess that I too have been missing this problem. Groan! There is not afind and replace that works with this because, very often, other punctuation marks scan as hyphens and need to be altered. So, I suggest, after readingthrough a book that you are proofreading, that you do a find on hyphen followed by a space. Check each instance of this and either correct theimproper punctuation, or unite the hyphenated word. It doesn't really takevery long to do, and makes for a much cleaner copy of a book. Just thought I'd bring this up, since it is not a problem pointed out by spell checkers, only grammar checkers, and is not apparent when proofreading using only speech unless you have all of your punctuation turned on. Happy proofreading! And sorry there isn't a good way to do a global find and replace! Read on! Mayrie To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list ofavailable commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.392 / Virus Database: 270.13.38/2274 - Release Date: 07/31/09 05:58:00 To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list ofavailable commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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