Proofreading is important, especially if you are writing something that has legal implications. I recently read through a "Declaration of Protective Covenants" for a development in my area and found a paragraph on the second page that contained two typos. Neither of them would have been caught by running a spell checker.
The first statement referred to the size of dwelling that could be erected on a lot in the development. It said that no dwelling could contain less than "one thousand eight hundred (2,800) square feet of living area for a one (1)-story dwelling.
Hm-mmm. If an argument over size ever went to court, I wonder which figure--the one written out in words or the one in numerals inside the parentheses--would carry the legal weight. Obviously, the two do not match.
The same paragraph contained a statement that began this way: "Story and one-half dwellings mush have a minimum of....
I couldn't help but wonder if the typist was drunk and slurring words in the brain as well as on paper!
Saturday, January 23, 2010
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