I'm disappointed to see this post (and other posts from Mr. Burns) filled with typos and grammar mistakes. I expect more from the Engadget blog family.
I do try to fix the more obvious spelling and grammar errors when I find them, although as someone else pointed out, it's more likely that the writers just want to get their story filed than go through a style manual looking for the proper way to italicize movie titles. We also post directly to the site, no editor reviews articles beforehand.
None of us have any sort of background in jounalism, so we do our best to get the information across with as little distraction as possible -- including linguistics. As with Engadget, Digg, Slashdot, or any other site where you can comment on articles, some people enjoy the metacommentary more than the content of the article. Thanks for reading and commenting anyway, and apologies for our mistakes.
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Nathan @ Sep 25th 2006 9:31AM
I'm disappointed to see this post (and other posts from Mr. Burns) filled with typos and grammar mistakes. I expect more from the Engadget blog family.
Erik Hanson @ Sep 25th 2006 1:16PM
I do try to fix the more obvious spelling and grammar errors when I find them, although as someone else pointed out, it's more likely that the writers just want to get their story filed than go through a style manual looking for the proper way to italicize movie titles. We also post directly to the site, no editor reviews articles beforehand.
None of us have any sort of background in jounalism, so we do our best to get the information across with as little distraction as possible -- including linguistics. As with Engadget, Digg, Slashdot, or any other site where you can comment on articles, some people enjoy the metacommentary more than the content of the article. Thanks for reading and commenting anyway, and apologies for our mistakes.