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Originally Posted by luv n tpa
We had to do peer editing in one of my English courses. I was the lucky student to be paired with Ms. Comma Happy. She inserted at least 40+ commas into my 3 page essay. I kid you not. I had to remove about that many from her paper. She even said to me as she handed it back, "It was really good except you needed a lot more commas."  |
Like they are salt or something.
I'm the worst about seeing what I expect to see or thinking that I typed one thing when I really typed another. (Recently I wrote "right" for "write"; it's not like I don't know the difference.) In real life, I take a lot more time to proofread.
So, I'm a lot more driven crazy by people who have to correct other people on dry erase boards or memos or agendas than I am by the errors themselves. It's one thing if you honestly think the person doesn't know better or you want to help correct a careless error, but you're just a jackass if you have to circle stuff in red on the white board or mark up the memo and put it back in the principal's box anonymously (and yes, I have colleagues who will do this.) They aren't interested in correcting the error to spare the person embarrassment or make it correct: they just want to circle it to call attention to it and feel superior. It takes what was a grammatical or proofreading issue and raises it to a character flaw.