tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2244203796398614305.post6901012533420334163..comments2024-02-12T01:32:47.184-07:00Comments on PROW 100: Foundations of Composition: Erin McKean Redefines the Dictionary - Live Blogging as Proofreading Practise: Cassidy MunroUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2244203796398614305.post-46536607316792630912009-11-16T15:35:52.368-07:002009-11-16T15:35:52.368-07:00You only have one line above the picture, just to ...You only have one line above the picture, just to let you know. <br /><br />"Because of this she doesn't want to do them." - The verb tense in this sentence does not agree with the sentence before it and it is a fragment. Could have been combined with the sentence before it.<br /><br />"Yes, now we have computers, but computers just speed up the process of compiling dictionaries they don't change it." - There should be a comma between "dictionaries" and "they."<br /><br />"McKean refers to dictionaries as steam punk in the way design hasn't changed, an electric velocipede." - You should brackets around "steam punk" so we know it's McKean's idea. Also, this sentence doesn't really flow. What does the electric velocipede have to do with anything? Maybe "like and electric velocipede?"<br /><br />"Essentially McKean says dictionaries are a "ham-butt problem", what she means..." - You should probably put a period between "ham-butt problem" and "what" to shorten this sentence a bit.<br /><br />"When people find a word not in the dictionary they think it's a bad word, but really the dictionaries that are bad." - Should be "but really IT'S the..."<br /><br />Maybe put un-dictionary in quotations so that we, again, know that it's McKean's idea.<br /><br />"If we put in all thE..." - You are missing the "e" on "the."<br /><br />There were mostly just mistakes that were probably there as the exercise, originally, was to free write. I like your quotes and you got a lot of what McKean was trying to say.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com