I was scanning through Amazon looking through the books, when I came across this entry.
"I intended to read only a brief section (one concept) at a time--each takes no mote than fifteen minutes-- but couldn't keep away for long, and finished the book in a day."
Peggy Smith
author, Mark My Words: Instruction and Practice in Proofreading
Could this be real? The instantly paranoid and cynic in me thought that they may be planting comments in their products. Then again, it could just be one of those ironic situations in life. Either way, it brightened my day.
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I usually have no problem getting your blog humor....but this post wentright over my head.
I don't get it!!! And it is frigging driving me NUTS!!!
Just the stupid in me. She wrote a book on proofreading and wrote "each take no MOTE than fifteen minutes". Webster defines mote as "a tiny piece of a substance". I think she meant "no MORE than". Obviously, she didn't take the time to proofread her comment. I'm such a pedantic dork at times.
I have noticed more and more comments that seem just a little "off" at times. This is what started my paranoid comment rant that morning.
I love me some quotation marks today.
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