Comments | hellfire128: on the off chance someone reads this . . .

hellfire128

on the off chance someone reads this . . .

Jul 15, 2006 02:55

so i'm trying to edit a paper my friend (a fellow bio major graduate) is submitting to a scientific journal for publication and i'm on pg 6. i dont think i've left a single sentence unaltered and it's to the point where i'm beginning to think "maybe this is good writing and i just suck at english now" or "maybe i'm just not reading any of this ( Read more... )

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jacqaubrey July 16 2006, 02:31:51 UTC

Oh no Jennie, I think you're right to edit all of it. The English is pretty funky IMO... "This segment is to touch more on one of the most common problems seen in horses, back pain"? There's bad grammar for you. :P

amichiba July 19 2006, 19:18:14 UTC

I concur. The English is a bit off on it all. Is the fellow graduate a native speaker? Much of the offness seems to be simple mistakes that I've seen in a lot of works by those whose first language is not English. (All of those fun CS papers.) Of course, this reply is four days later so you've probably finished it. Now I just have to poke you awake one day to do something with you that's not school related.

hellfire128 July 23 2006, 04:57:19 UTC

hey! you have 10 days to do hang out with me before i leave . . . wanna have dinner on Tues??

what are the chances you actually get this? hmmm . . .

also, what's your e-mail? my nd account expired and i suck (i failed to transfer all my contacts because i'm lazy and prematurely senile).

amichiba July 26 2006, 03:33:54 UTC

Well, it's Tuesday night so I'm gonna guess it's too late for dinner tonight. For the email part, the Stetson email is for life so I still have that one, or the roadrunner account, or even my gmail account. I check all three through Outlook so it doesn't matter which one you send it to.

In summary,
lschindl@stetson.edu
amichiba@cfl.rr.com
amichiba@gmail.com

I make it easy. The only email that I have (long ago) given up on is my hotmail account. Otherwise, I have the same emails (well, the roadrunner one) for like six years or so now. (Go me!)

Tell me if you have any other opportunities for meet and greets this week. Otherwise, um... maybe I'll bump into your mom at Target again. That's kinda like seeing you. Sorta. :)