Reply #165: It never ceases to amaze me how many of Keith's fans work with words.

[Berry Cool]

I write, I edit, AND I proofread. PEOPLE WHO CAN'T BE BOTHERED TO GET THEIR GRAMMAR RIGHT DRIVE ME NUTS! An especial pain are writers who think they can treat editors like "janitors" of prose...they don't even feel the need to examine their own work and at least TRY to have enough pride in it to make it look halfway good before handing it off.

And no, many of the younger kids don't know the rules. Even worse, they think they don't have to, because "so long as everyone gets what you mean it's all right." Well, sometimes they DON'T "get what you mean" because you didn't communicate it well. That's what they don't understand.