tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29204932.post3825254065666808900..comments2024-03-25T01:39:10.406-06:00Comments on Mysterious Musings: Technological Time TravelJulia Buckleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10270211923343731659noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29204932.post-49464367631236201042008-05-15T15:20:00.000-06:002008-05-15T15:20:00.000-06:00That sounds to me like the definition of a bad tea...That sounds to me like the definition of a bad teacher whose methods might as well have been calculated to repel students from learning. I have any teachers who were that much of an ---hole. Rather, I internalized the abhorrence of strikeovers.<BR/>===================<BR/> Detectives Beyond Borders<BR/>"Because Murder Is More Fun Away From Home"<BR/> http://detectivesbeyondborders.blogspot.com/Peter Rozovskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09977933481463759162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29204932.post-28462506957058608252008-05-15T15:00:00.000-06:002008-05-15T15:00:00.000-06:00Ah yes--I remember the strict research paper rubri...Ah yes--I remember the strict research paper rubrics. No strike-outs, and the teacher would hold it up to the light to make sure nothing had been whited out. Yikes. Sometimes I had to re-do three and four times.Julia Buckleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10270211923343731659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29204932.post-85983351156848153792008-05-15T12:07:00.000-06:002008-05-15T12:07:00.000-06:00All of us, I think. And maybe I should have referr...All of us, I think. And maybe I should have referred to a neurosis not for perfection, but for a clean page. <BR/><BR/>Think of your days at the typewriter: Like me, you probably had the experience of having to throw out an entire page because you left out or misspelled a word. But Dickens, say, not to mention writers before him, probably found an occasional blotted- or crossed-out word no barrier to an acceptable manuscript. Nor, I assume, did his publishers.<BR/>===================<BR/>Detectives Beyond Borders<BR/>"Because Murder Is More Fun Away From Home"<BR/>http://detectivesbeyondborders.blogspot.com/Peter Rozovskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09977933481463759162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29204932.post-41941801167918032912008-05-15T06:07:00.000-06:002008-05-15T06:07:00.000-06:00But for whom has it caused neurosis--all of us, or...But for whom has it caused neurosis--all of us, or just you? :)Julia Buckleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10270211923343731659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29204932.post-817803537267829242008-05-14T21:47:00.000-06:002008-05-14T21:47:00.000-06:00The passage from manuscript to typewriters to comp...The passage from manuscript to typewriters to computers and the near-infinitely easy ability to correct errors may have encouraged a neurotic attachment to an ideal of grammatical and orthographic perfection. And yes, I am a copy editor by profession.<BR/>===================<BR/> Detectives Beyond Borders<BR/>"Because Murder Is More Fun Away From Home"<BR/> http://detectivesbeyondborders.blogspot.com/Peter Rozovskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09977933481463759162noreply@blogger.com