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Elango Posted 19 years ago
Grammar
Meaning of the phrase
I recently read a phrase in the "American Medical Association Manual of Style":
Your great attention to detail is both a blessing and a curse.
Can anyone explain me the meaning of this phrase? Thanks!
Your great attention to detail is both a blessing and a curse.
Can anyone explain me the meaning of this phrase? Thanks!
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Lacking context, it could mean that is is a blessing because you are careful and a curse because it overrides fluency.
- Lacking context, it could mean that is is a blessing because you are careful and a curse because it overrides fluency.
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Lacking context, it could mean that is is a blessing because you are careful and a curse because it overrides fluency.
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The AMA manual is used by copyeditors, for whom attention to detail is an essential part of the job (accuracy and precision are life-and-death matters in medicine and medical publications). However, in a world full of newspapers, magazines, and Internet sites and forums that are haphazardly edited and routinely full of typos, misspellings, and grammatical errors, noticing all of these errors can m
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