Muscle Car Review..

[njsteve]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 69hurstSC</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 68l30</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Often, what was edited and published was not what the author had written. Things get changed for odd reasons by people that should not be editing content. Something I recently learned. Don't shoot the author, hang the editor.

BIG </div></div>

What experience are you basing this statement on? </div></div>

I concur. I was the tech editor at MCR and Mopar Muscle from 1990-94 and sometimes I'd be floored by edits/corrections that were made by the people above me. I was, on more than one occasion, told that I should have been writing to a fifth grade reading level and the fact that I had a law degree meant that I was writing too far above the heads of my audience. Whether it was them making technical material no longer accurate or just plain &quot;correcting&quot; my correct grammer with incorrect grammer or slang, it drove me nuts.

Don't get me started on the phrase &quot;it needs restored.&quot; Or how Charger Daytonas had fiberglass nose cones... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif[/img]


...and when I finally met someone there that had a better talent at grammer and syntax...I married her! (We just had our 23rd anniversary a couple weeks ago). [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/naughty.gif[/img]


...and she is still correcting me!

[scuncio]

Steve, I remember the first time I read the blue line from Car Craft, after I had written four articles that month, and my editor had gone through and marked up my copy to &quot;sound more appropriate.&quot; Another time he replaced &quot;isn't&quot; with &quot;ain't.&quot; It drove me nuts.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: njsteve</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 69hurstSC</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 68l30</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Often, what was edited and published was not what the author had written. Things get changed for odd reasons by people that should not be editing content. Something I recently learned. Don't shoot the author, hang the editor.

BIG </div></div>

What experience are you basing this statement on? </div></div>

I concur. I was the tech editor at MCR and Mopar Muscle from 1990-94 and sometimes I'd be floored by edits/corrections that were made by the people above me. I was, on more than one occasion, told that I should have been writing to a fifth grade reading level and the fact that I had a law degree meant that I was writing too far above the heads of my audience. Whether it was them making technical material no longer accurate or just plain &quot;correcting&quot; my correct grammer with incorrect grammer or slang, it drove me nuts.

Don't get me started on the phrase &quot;it needs restored.&quot; Or how Charger Daytonas had fiberglass nose cones... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif[/img]


...and when I finally met someone there that had a better talent at grammer and syntax...I married her! (We just had our 23rd anniversary a couple weeks ago). [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/naughty.gif[/img]


...and she is still correcting me! </div></div>