Word geekery

[helblonde]

I'm editing a guidebook about IT responsibilities in M&A.  (Zzzzzz....) I knew I was in trouble when I asked my boss whether there was a technical writer involved and he said "you're it!"

Aside from one of the writers not knowing that we're writing in English, so we don't need to capitalize every single noun, I have grabbed a couple of interesting errors. Today's favorite:

(blah, blah, blah, etc...)


Um, "etc..."? I'm pretty sure the elipsis has no place in business writing and certainly does not need to be combined with et cetera. *sigh*

Comments

Re: random numbers

[goldenstag.livejournal.com]

I told my Word students (I teach at a local vocational school) Wednesday that the three dots have a name, and some software actually converts them to a single character if you type "...". I got some raised eyebrows at that. It was kind of interesting to see how few people know that.