Nice to see an "iff" in the wild, too. Not that long ago, I read an article on proofreading/copyediting, which related the tale of someone editing a mathematician's book manuscript and changing each "iff" to "if". That was gobsmacking, but then I considered how incurious that person must be, to see repeated instances of the word and never check a dictionary, and was smacked afresh in the gob.
That is what I don't get--if you PAY for a service why are you additionally helping them PAY their advertisers. Greedy ass mofos!
Great rant, Geoff.
Nice to see an "iff" in the wild, too. Not that long ago, I read an article on proofreading/copyediting, which related the tale of someone editing a mathematician's book manuscript and changing each "iff" to "if". That was gobsmacking, but then I considered how incurious that person must be, to see repeated instances of the word and never check a dictionary, and was smacked afresh in the gob.
*Standing ovation* Bravo!
You go boy!