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Feb. 14th, 2005 05:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darklunaOh, would that I were a developmental editor!
I would make this book I'm working on so much better. This author is so wordy and uses such convoluted sentence structure that every time I see a single word highlighted in her chapter reviews, I dread to see what her comment is, because I know she's going to want to do something like change a nice innocuous little word like "game" to "game or contest, as it appears in the data model, that is, not as it appears in relation or proximity to a concept in the real world".
Exaggeration for comedic effect? If only.
I would make this book I'm working on so much better. This author is so wordy and uses such convoluted sentence structure that every time I see a single word highlighted in her chapter reviews, I dread to see what her comment is, because I know she's going to want to do something like change a nice innocuous little word like "game" to "game or contest, as it appears in the data model, that is, not as it appears in relation or proximity to a concept in the real world".
Exaggeration for comedic effect? If only.
