On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 06:42:37 -0500, Melba's Jammin'
> wrote:

>Proofreading should always be done by two people, one reading aloud, the
>other checking the words. That apoostrophe s my story and capital I
>apostrophe m sticking to it.

Back when I was a baby paralegal, I was often assigned the task of
transcribing legal descriptions of real estate from the county clerk's
documents to create closing property documents. Those damned things
don't make any sense insofar as they read like "six chains from the
northeast corner of..." or "[blank] degrees west for a measure of 70.5
feet." In really old documents, which were more fun (if anything in
this process could possibly be described as fun) were references to
"the old sycamore abutting the Jones property..." To proof the
document I was creating, I had to dragoon another paralegal or other
support staff to read a copy while I proofed what I'd transcribed.
B-O-R-I-N-G does not begin to describe it, but there were damned few
typos.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

--

"If the soup had been as warm as the wine,
if the wine had been as old as the turkey,
and if the turkey had had a breast like the maid,
it would have been a swell dinner." Duncan Hines


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