Re: Retaining author's voice, was How to Use English Punctuation Correctly - wikiHow
Subject:Re: Retaining author's voice, was How to Use English Punctuation Correctly - wikiHow From:"Susan W Gallagher" <susanwg -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"Susan Hogarth" <hogarth -at- gmail -dot- com> Date:Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:27:14 -0700
At my last gig, when people asked me to "pretty up" or "work magic on" a
document, I'd tell them I'd go wave a dead chicken over it and see what
happened. Eventually, they'd ask me to wave the dead chicken instead - far
less demeaning! <g>
-Sue Gallagher
On 7/13/07, Susan Hogarth <hogarth -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
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>
> One very nice guy I used to work with would say in meetings "Then
> we'll send the document to Susan and she'll Pretty It Up." Gah.
> *That's* a good phrase for editing. NOT! Fortunately I actually enjoy
> what I've heard called 'font fondling' so I didn't take it to hard,
> but still...
>
>
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