Editor 101

[Sawyer]

Ok this is from your Lost Podcast Team page:

Do you enjoy listening to The Lost Podcast with Jay and Jack? Do you want to win some cool prizes? Then join the Lost Podcast Team. All you have to do is give us an email at [e-mail] or call us on our hotline at 206-309-0311, and tell us you want to join.

What does a Lost Podcast Team member do? Well its simple just spread the word of the show tell your friends, family, and your dog if you want to. You can put one of our banners, or buttons (you can find the banners, and buttons on the link to us page in the Nav Bar) on your site, or your signature on your favorite message board. Its that simple, we have a great bunch of listeners that make the show a million times better with there contribution.


So now I'm going to edit it. Why? Cuz it's a habit of mine. This is what it should read: (I'll highlight the changes)

Do you enjoy listening to The Lost Podcast with Jay and Jack? Do you want to win some cool prizes? Then join the Lost Podcast Team! All you have to do is give us an email at [e-mail] or call us on our hotline at 206-309-0311 (no comma) and tell us you want to join.

What does a Lost Podcast Team member do? Well, it's simple: just spread the word of the show tell your friends, family, and your dog if you want to. You can put one of our banners, or buttons (you can find the banners, and buttons on the link to us page in the Nav Bar) on your site, or your signature on your favorite message board. It's that simple, we have a great bunch of listeners that make the show a million times better with their contribution.


There that's better. Your site is more prestigious if you have correct grammar and spelling.


I modified this post so that I could explain the edits. With the "Then join the Lost Podcast Team!" an exclamation point is needed because the previous information suggested an excited theme. You need a comma after "well" because you pause there, and what you are trying to say there is "Well, it is simple" and therefore it is i-t-'-s and not i-t-s. That's true for all of the apostrophes I put in there. And lastly, you are showing posession when you say "there feedback" and for that you need to use "their" instead. Common mistake there.

So yeah, I'm probably getting annoying so I'll stop. That's it though. There might be some real minor stuff but most people don't look for that.

[evilgus]

Semi-colon, not a colon after 'it's simple'.
No need to keep that comma inside the brackets, or parenthesis as I believe yanks call them.
And that exclamation mark makes it look like an order from an army sergeant or something to join the Lost Podcast team. All aggressive and shouty. No need for it.

[Cliff]

If you're going to be pedantic, Sawyer, then perhaps you should have said "Because it's what I do" rather than 'Cuz.'

Not only is correcting someone's spelling on the boards poor netiquette, it potentially opens the door for all sorts of unpleasantness.

And I disagree about the exclamation point, evilgus - in this case, it's meant to show excitement, and should therefore be allowed. And brackets and parentheses are completely different-looking!

[evilgus]

Dude, this is a bracket (
but in America you call it a parenthesis.

[Cliff]

No, this { is a bracket. this ( is a parenthesis. Hence my comment about them being completely different looking.

But I'm not disputing that they're called different things here vs. there. Just trying to tell you what they look like here.

[evilgus]

I think you will find that ( was called a bracket long before America was even founded, so I am right
You can't just change something's name to floogle and then try and correct everyone who carries on calling it a butterfly.

[Cliff]

You can call it a bracket if you want - I don't really care.

But over here, if you call that a bracket, no one will know what you mean.

It's not like I changed the name, man.



for example:

www.m-w.com/dictionary/bracket

www.m-w.com/dictionary/parenthesis

Besides - I'm not really sure why you're on about it anyway - it's not like in my original post I said anything about it!!

[Jay]

Oh my god too much stuff to process........cant......handle.....it......*head explodes*

Sorry for my terrible grammar once i get the time ill change it.