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From: C503719@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Baird McIntosh)
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Subject: AmigoTimes (was Re: Request for info on PageStream and Pro. Page)
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Date: 1 Nov 89 04:19:04 GMT
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In article <32268@ucbvax.berkeley.edu>, mitchell@janus.berkeley.edu (Evan
Mitchell) writes:
>I also like AmigoTimes.  I think it looks better than ANY other Amiga mgazine.
>However, I don't buy it.  Why?  $9.95 is too much to pay for a magazine.  They
>really should drop the disk, especially since it doesn't seem to contain
>original programs (ala Compute's Amiga Resource or Amiga +).  I would spend
>maybe $4.95 for it.

Well, the issue with DTP in it (issue 1.8) was available at the bookstore for
US $3.95 or CDN $4.50 or UK #2.50 (can I send a pound symbol on USENET? :-)
*without* the disk.  So you can now go out and buy it.

Speaking of AmigoTimes, does anyone else agree that they need some editors
who maybe know a little more about English sentence structure/grammar?  This is
going to sound harsher than I mean for it to, but there are serious structural
errors in every AmigoTimes article in each issue I have purchased.  I know
that it is published by Canadians (who MAYBE speak French 1st, English 2nd?),
but it is a little disturbing to read English text with so many superfluous,
missing, or misplaced punctuation marks.  The most regular mistakes are run-on
sentences that lack a conjunction; for example: "The Professional Page
interface also has both pros and cons, the layout of most of its menus is
logical and conforms to that un-written Amiga standard that all Amiga programs
should follow."  In this case, there should be a conjunction like 'and' or
'but' after the ',' or the ',' should be changed to a ';'.  I have also noticed
sentence fragments.  Anyway...
     This is not meant as a criticism of the average Canadian's grasp of the
English language and it is not meant to imply that all Canadians speak French
and only 'sorta speak English'; however, I think the magazine should take more
time to edit the text for clarity/proper structure, and if they are already
spending a lot of time, then they need a crash course in English sentence
structure.

Has anyone else been bothered by this small flaw in AmigoTimes articles?  For
a magazine trying to be taken seriously while boasting that it is produced on
Amigas, I would think they could try a little harder in the editing department.

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