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Originally Posted by bigjoe
If I wanted a proofreader, I'll ask and pay for it.
So what are some strange souls doing on this site, pretending
to be gurus, ready to ambush the unwary? For a comma spacing even.
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Funny you say that... I published a number of scientific papers during my PhD in journals produced by big publishing houses (Elsevier, LWW, etc), and their proof readers would be complete grammar nazis.
"Fair enough", you may think, but the proof readers weren't scientifically trained (even at a basic level!) and would more often than not helpfully "correct" my wording to mean the opposite thing! Or, they may strictly adhere to capitalisation conventions that go against standardised nomenclature (e.g. IUPAC for chemical names).
The worst part is the embarrassment from colleagues pointing out my "mistakes" that were introduced by the production staff
