Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Michael S. finds several small errors in Weekly Jog to surge into the lead

Here's what he found in the Jan. 29 Weekly Jog:

• The "Freshmen 15" should be the "Freshman 15."

• A comma was needed after "Novi Town Center," because they are two independent clauses.

• No comma was needed after "Worried."

• Bauman's lacked something. He was right. It should be Bauman's Running and Walking Shop on first reference.

He also lost a point for suggesting I change something that was already correct. He said "5-kilometer" should be spelled out. This is part of what I wrote to him about it:

• "You are correct that distances in kilometers and miles below 10 are spelled out, but it's not five kilometers. It's "5-kilometer race," which some will argue, including me, changes everything (I think you could find others who disagree that this is stretching this particular rule). Instead of a simple distance, this is now a length, which under dimensions would be a figure."

Even with the oops, he still netted three points.

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