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Subject:RE: Question about questions From:KMcLauchlan -at- chrysalis-its -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 23 Nov 2000 10:49:17 -0500
Regardless of what the Techwhirllist answers on that topic,
the place where it IS considered deriguerre to ask such
questions is -
The CopyEditors Mailing list CE-L, which you can join
by doing this:
To subscribe, send listserv -at- listserv -dot- indiana -dot- edu the command
subscribe copyediting-l
HTH, and all that...
/kevin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Krunchik -at- aol -dot- com [mailto:Krunchik -at- aol -dot- com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 1:28 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Question about questions
>
>
> Is it common to post those annoying little editing questions,
> like "Is
> 'groundwater' usually one word or two words?" or "How do you
> hyphenate 'well
> to moderately well drained soils'?
>
> These kind of questions pop up all the time, and, as a new
> editor for an
> environmental engineering firm, I've been winging the answers
> up to this
> point. I did notice today, my first day with Techwhirl, that
> several posts
> referred to the "deterioration of list content." That's why
> I'm wondering
> whether technical editing questions are typical in these postings.
>
> Thanks.
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