>> The ideal persons would have a background as English teachers or journalists...
Are you sure!?! Perhaps a retired English teacher "English" has not been taught for decades in Australian schools because it was too difficult. 2X that for NZ. All our workers are functionally illiterate to the point where turning on the spell checker is a waste of time because it just gives up. I don't know about journalists. Perhaps if you want someone to check facts, you should avoid them. Proof readers are good value. If you want a great proof reader, I could suggest my wife's brother. He used to be fairly illiterate (he went to a Steiner school) but his first job after leaving school was proof reading for a niche publisher who specialised in pictorial literature for persons of gay persuasion. I got him and some others to check something I wrote… the best that anyone else could come up with was about 8 mistakes… he came up with something like 58 mistakes. But proof reading is not the same as checking style and meaning. If you have read Gliding International or a recent Italian book on sailplane design, you would see that proof reading, spell checking and getting the meaning correct, clear and understandable is a lot less important than it used to be. Put in a few good jokes and everyone will forgive you. Time to duck and run. D _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
