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Hi Norma/Natalie,
Coincidentally, I'm one of the people who firmly agree that Tom is a Ripperologist who can very competently "write" – and I happen to like his style, which is both concise and lively. I understand that the editing he benefits from in the mags concerns mostly orthography and typos (which, if rare, as in his case, is not the end of the world to me). The editorial assistance I had in mind pertained to his (again: not very often) sometimes using the “wrong“ word. I recall, for instance his once using “hypothesis“ instead of “conjencture“, as in “All this is hypothesis, I'm afraid“, where he should have said “All this is conjecture, I'm afraid“. Again, not the end of the world, but that's where an editor (or a second proofreader) comes very handy. And that's precisely what I meant when commenting on the fact that editing is less work than writing a text from scatch per se, and I'm regularly enganging in both, professionally. This is obviously the fact only for people sensitized enough to the writing word to be able to accomplish editing work.
What I find sweet is that Tom managed to offend someone on his first day of returning to the boards.
Congrats, Tom, and keep up the good (offensive) work.
Coincidentally, I'm one of the people who firmly agree that Tom is a Ripperologist who can very competently "write" – and I happen to like his style, which is both concise and lively. I understand that the editing he benefits from in the mags concerns mostly orthography and typos (which, if rare, as in his case, is not the end of the world to me). The editorial assistance I had in mind pertained to his (again: not very often) sometimes using the “wrong“ word. I recall, for instance his once using “hypothesis“ instead of “conjencture“, as in “All this is hypothesis, I'm afraid“, where he should have said “All this is conjecture, I'm afraid“. Again, not the end of the world, but that's where an editor (or a second proofreader) comes very handy. And that's precisely what I meant when commenting on the fact that editing is less work than writing a text from scatch per se, and I'm regularly enganging in both, professionally. This is obviously the fact only for people sensitized enough to the writing word to be able to accomplish editing work.
What I find sweet is that Tom managed to offend someone on his first day of returning to the boards.
Congrats, Tom, and keep up the good (offensive) work.
Only kidding, I don't have much room to talk.
And by the by, it's always easier to edit someone else's text that one's own. Probably due to the fact that our own texts, especially when recently written, are so deep embedded in our memory, that we either don't really read them, or become dyslexic.
, I hope you're fine), but referring to Gareth Williams' capabilities, whom I experienced live in the recent Whitechapel conference, and he made the best impression. 
), but I'm also lazy, and editing a done text is much less work that writing it from scratch. Incidentally, I speak from very direct experience, as I'm expected to produce a 15 pages paper later tonight for a German conference taking place in 3 days, and so far haven't written a line yet.
(I'll use bits and pieces from my dissertation, so no sweat. The irony is, I have perfect text I could use for this, from 2 other papers/articles, but they're both in English, and it's a JOB to translate from English to German. Writing from scratch in German is quicker than translating. Darn conference...
As you'll notice that, besides being lazy, I'm also shamefully ungrateful...)
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