Monday, May 07, 2007

annals of persuasion

From an e-mail received earlier:
>dear jeremey:
>
>do you have time to proof read this paper tonight?  [snip]
Ways to get me to proofread a paper even when I don't have time to do so: misspell my name and "proofread" in the request.

(As it happened, the paper itself was almost entirely typo-free.)
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3 comments:

  1. Bad Runner5/7/07, 9:58 AM

    I think the appropriate response is, "No, but I did have time to proofread your email message!"

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  2. Eszter5/7/07, 8:50 PM

    So you read the paper? And who sends you this type of email, with such short notice no less?

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  3. Brad Wright5/8/07, 2:23 PM

    Two misspellings today:
    * I was looking through an issue of Sociological Perspectives, and the table of contents listed "Riviewers"
    * Found out that the announcement for a new president for UConn has two typos/ grammatical errors in the first sentence.

    Though, those of us who live in glass houses...

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