Re: JSH: Mistakes happen

From: David C. Ullrich (ullrich_at_math.okstate.edu)
Date: 07/20/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 05:45:42 -0500

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 09:10:18 +0000 (UTC),
mareg@mimosa.csv.warwick.ac.uk () wrote:

>In article <2m27obFhqrbmU1@uni-berlin.de>,
> "The Last Danish Pastry" <clivet@gmail.com> writes:
>>"James Harris" <jstevh@msn.com> wrote in message
>>news:3c65f87.0407190543.11415180@posting.google.com...
>>
>>> I was told by Ioannis Argyros that the paper passed peer review.
>>>
>>> Here's a direct quote with the original grammar errors:
>>>
>>> "Our decision to accept the paper for publication in SWJPAM
>>> was based on positive opinions received by the reviewers.
>>>
>>> You can visit(sometime in May):
>>> http://rattler.cameron.edu/swjpam/swjpam.html
>>> to find it.
> ^^
>>>
>>> Thanks for sending your nice paper to us."
>>
>>"nice" does seem an inappropriate adjective for your paper.
>>And I am not sure what these "grammar errors" are.
>
>That "it" should be "them", since it is (presumably) referring to the
>alleged positive opinions.

I think it's much more reasonable to assume that "it" refers to
the published version of the paper. You really think the journal
is posting referee's reports on the web?

(Now, assuming that "it" refers to the paper then one might
argue that there's a problem with the grammar, since if we
ignore what's sensible and look at what's written it does
appear that the referent is the positive opinions. I'm
not sure whether the fact that "it" is singular counts
as disambiguating this, but I _think_ it does...)

>Derek Holt.

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David C. Ullrich