I admit that as I’ve transitioned from writing on a manual typewriter to composing on the computer screen, I’ve become a bit lazy in my spellcheckery. Those little red dots are my clean up crew; some days too much so. And inevitably, an error or two can slip in, sometimes making your point a bit more poignantly than you intended. Or just embarrasses the heck out of you.
I’ve been doing some spring cleaning on my inbox, and found a few gems that even the spell checker couldn’t save me from:
I’d suggest a tired approach to people management …
immediately followed by …
At the bottom of the pyramid are simple users.
Because pyramids are all about the tiers, don’t you know. Not! As the recipient later pointed out, though, sometimes tiered management is rather tired.
Other times, I get full of myself. On a short “white paper” on domesticity, I went way out there:
One could write books about [subject]
Editors are great for helping keep your ego in check. If only Clippy had been that useful.
Have you hugged your editor today?
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