Luminous landscape is a high quality online mag but it isn't immune to typos (or simply the wrong choice of word). Sometimes, I feel it's almost a trademark! I don't think it matters that much but if the guys could tighten up the editing a little (maybe enlist volunteer proof readers?) it would be appreciated....
Two comments...
We are aware that our editing has sometimes left something to be desired. For this reason we recently hired a professional editor and for the past couple of months all articles have been rigorously proofread and edited by a third party.
Nevertheless, typos happen, and as but one example, a day hardly goes by when the New York Times does not note typos from the previous day's edition.
Perfection is hard to attain, and sometimes not even desirable.
As for casual online messaging, on this forum or elsewhere, in my view holding it to a high standard for grammar and spelling, as some here are proposing, is just pedantry. People write online quickly, and casually, and few expect to have their Grade 8 spelling teaching standing over their shoulder when composing a post.
Also, allowance for people who are not native English speakers and/or poor typist needs to be given.
I'll simply add that I'm much more interested in what people have to write than in the correctness of their presentation, and I am interested not at all in reading anything by those who simply like to prove that they are smarter than someone else (
which they likely are not).
Michael
