arundelo comments on Eight Short Studies On Excuses - Less Wrong

210 Post author: Yvain 20 April 2010 11:01PM

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Comment author: arundelo 20 April 2010 11:21:09PM 9 points [-]

Typos:

These paragraphs

You say "Like all economics professors [....] I can't grant you an extension.

A third student comes to you [....] the one whose mother died.

should end in quotation marks.

In this sentence

"The student who was here before me, that's different.

"me" should be "you".

This paragraph

You respond "Although my policies [....] sufficient justification for almost anyone breaking any law.

should end in a (double) quotation mark and most of the quotation marks in it are nested so should be single.

(Upvoted, by the way.)

Comment author: Yvain 21 April 2010 05:51:28PM 7 points [-]

You missed the "they enjoys" one. You're fired as official Less Wrong proofreader. (just kidding, thanks for the corrections)

Comment author: Username 27 September 2011 04:07:48AM 1 point [-]

This comment is a little late, but the last paragraph mentioned actually shouldn't end in a double quote, because it's the same speaker as the next paragraph. (This tripped me up while I was reading.)

Comment author: arundelo 27 September 2011 05:32:58AM *  0 points [-]

Indeed! (For that matter the single versus double quote stuff in that paragraph still isn't right.)

Edit: Specifically, "well-known religious rituals" should be followed by a single quote not a double one.