Originally Posted by Nutek

CDO

*twitch*

Originally Posted by Pulaski

I'm a stickler for accuracy. I may be borderline OCD, and my mother was a high school English teacher. Funnily enough I loathed English at school, dropped Eng Lit as soon as I was able, i.e. before O' levels, much to my mother's disappointment.

Now I spend much of my time at work reading reports, writing reports, and editing/ correcting the written work of others. If you'd told me at any point up to about three years after I left uni that my career would be primarily centered on words and writing, I'd have told you that you're out of your gourd!

Originally Posted by dunroving

As I spend much of my time both editing and having to use prefect English, it is quite a relief when posting on BE to not worry if I have a typo (which I can blame on my cr*p tablet keyboard, anyway).

But I couldn't be as cavalier as some on here about the need to at least try to write in semi-coherent English. I wouldn't be able to sleep at night if I thought I'd typed a paragraph without a single capital letter or full stop.

Originally Posted by nicola s

I don't know if I have mentioned before that my daughter has Asperger's.

She is very particular about many things, and it often makes me smile now rather than exasperate me.

I mentioned before she had been at a party and the police were called, Hayley was asked to give a statement, which she duly did.

She was then handed the policeman's notebook to check over what she had said and correct any mistakes before signing.

This took quite a bit of time...............as she was correcting the policeman's spelling.

Originally Posted by Sally Redux

Prefect English? Does that involve giving transgressors lines?

Originally Posted by dunroving

Pulaski is obviously slow off the mark ... and you were just commenting in the MBTTUK forum about getting English irony (think about it ... the only error in the whole post was the word "prefect".)

[my cunning plan was to suggest Pulaski must have dropped English lit 'O'-level before they reached "irony"]

Originally Posted by dunroving

Pulaski is obviously slow off the mark ... and you were just commenting in the MBTTUK forum about getting English irony (think about it ... the only error in the whole post was the word "prefect".)

[my cunning plan was to suggest Pulaski must have dropped English lit 'O'-level before they reached "irony"]

Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing

If I were you, I'd have gone with 'intentional pun' on that one

Originally Posted by Sally Redux

Maybe a nod to 'Hitch-Hiker's Guide'?

Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing

Well, it was nice and inconspicuous ...

Originally Posted by dunroving

Pulaski is obviously slow off the mark ... and you were just commenting in the MBTTUK forum about getting English irony (think about it ... the only error in the whole post was the word "prefect".) ......

Originally Posted by Pulaski

I was too busy with my own typo in #1258 (last line), which Sultan quoted (#1259) before I was able to correct it.

Originally Posted by Pulaski

I was too busy with my own typo in #1258 (last line), which Sultan quoted (#1259) before I was able to correct it.

Originally Posted by dunroving

I only noticed the error in the first line. Still don't see the one in the last line.