^^^^God forbid anyone should EVER admit to being wrong.
I’m still in favor of CC getting a “you made me laugh” button. 
If you are reviewing it, that in my book means you tell him about typos. Too bad if he doesn’t like it. You can mark it up and take a photo and send it back that way if you like. I take minutes for our neighborhood association and I really miss my co-secretary who used to be a ruthless proofreader not just with typos, but a lot of other stuff as well. She was a fabulous editor. Sadly she moved.
Funny, Damon. On a big $$ proposal, the typo “wharehouse” got auto corrected to “whorehouse.”
You can preface with, “I caught a few typos…” Simple, true, and relevant.
DH always talked about “sandwich technique.”
One of my responsibilities at a job was to read and correct documents for legal content. When we (another guy and I split this duty) asked the newly formed Communications department people if they wanted us to correct their grammar and typos, they were shocked that there were any. “Oh, were you a ‘J’ major? An English major?” No, I just went to 4th grade and learned the difference between their and they’re. The biggest issues were ‘the branch said…’ Well, branches don’t talk. The branch MANAGER may have said xxx, but you have to say that.
I just couldn’t let the letters go out with bad grammar or articles be published with missing commas. Before we had this new department with 8 communications specialists, we didn’t have any problems. We had one guy who put together a corporate magazine that came out 4 times per year. He didn’t make many mistakes.
Fix the problems.
@scout59 Loser or Looser?
In his defense, there have been many changes and corrections. It’s been going on three months and we are both at the end of our patience. Yes, while hesitating to bring up yet another correction he finished the final version and I lost a day since he has to go back and correct the few minor mistakes.
Igloo, in communicating, it’s not about our intentions, as speakers or writers. It’s what the end reader impressions are.
If your reputation is tied into this, it’s worth doing fully and correctly.
I support a client who consistently used the word “sale” instead of “sell.” As in “we intend to sale the building.” I just could not let him go on that way, as he is the business of real estate sales (or “sells” as he would write.) He doesn’t mispronounce the word. I emailed him, identifying myself as a grammar fanatic and mentioned it to him. He was likely irritated but folks are frequently irritated at Legal.
Same guy has also consistently mispronounced a co-worker’s name for a year. The co-worker is too kind to correct him. I finally brought that to his attention, again because I could not stand it, saying that I had initially mispronounced the name, too. (In fact, I mispronounced it exactly once, heard it said the right way, then corrected myself.) He tried a few times to pronounce the name correctly, but now he’s gone back to the old pronunciation.
Before you feel bad for the guy, English is his first language, and he doesn’t have a speech or hearing impairment.
I don’t feel bad for the guy. Just that it’s been going on a while and it has been aggravating. I am trying to find a way not to rub it in. Maybe losing a day to let him run helped. He was more receptive today to my latest corrections and I hope our friendship(?) remains intact.