Ouch. LOL, yeah, maybe I could use one of them also.

Thanks,

Geary

-----Original Message-----
From: Diana Tomchick [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 8:15 PM
To: Geary Schindel
Cc: Mixon Bill; Cavers Texas
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Nat Geo article

On May 20, 2009, at 4:17 PM, Geary Schindel wrote:

>
> However, I'm not quite sure I would lay all the blame on the writer, I
> understand that NG has an editor for every point within the Gregg
> Reference Manual for writing and well as their own style manual...
> ..He might have been exaggerating but I thought he said
> they had one for capitalization, one for comas,

So they have an editor for head injuries, too?

The reason they have so many editors is because they have a very large  
and very picky readership. It's a group of people who don't hesitate  
to write to the editors to complain about any tiny errors that they  
may find, including ones as mundane as simple spelling errors.

Diana

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