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Does anyone else out there ever go back and edit posts for trivial grammatical and/or flow errors. Trivial ones, not big ones like using the word "irregardless", but miniscule errors like "teh", a random word that doesn't fit the verb tense, or whatever.
Mind you, I'm not changing content, and I'm not trying to make myself sound smarter. For example, I was just re-reading Taco Lackey and Fender Kickin' Fun, when I came across two minor things that needed to be fixed.
In Taco Lackey, I had written "1. You won't have to see another credit card ever again. 2. I won't ever have to see you again." Can anyone spot the minor irritant? Yes, it's that the two sentences don't have parallel verb placement. It was not necessary to change it. Technically there was not a problem. But it didn't flow to my liking.
In Fender Kickin' Fun, I had written "My dad tried was telling me what could have happened..." The word "tried" does not belong in that sentence. However, as I read it, I saw what I had attempted to write. There were two seperate manners of expressing the same thought in that sentence, and in the end past continuous tense beat out past tense. So I removed the vestigial "tried".
I'm not sure if these minor changes count as true post-editing. It's not as if I'm deleting my posts (which I've been reprimanded for before) I'm only fixing the things that bother me, that I wrote. I have editing power over every other member of Team Monkey, but I don't change things in their posts that I don't like. Much like the comments. I don't go in and "fix" anyone's comments to my liking other than my own.
I'm not sure what this says about me. |
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