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msmemory_archive ([personal profile] msmemory_archive) wrote2008-05-21 01:06 pm
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Born proofreader

The SLA advertisement-invitations for the upcoming conference have begun to arrive, including the ultra-desirable Lexis-Nexis Dessert Reception at Paul Allen's music museum. It's grating though, that the standardized email headers prepended by SLA read "Brought to by SLA." The proofreader in me winces each time.
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[identity profile] dlevey.livejournal.com 2008-05-21 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Did anyone else look at this and think the Symbionese Liberation Army was hosting a conference?

[identity profile] udalrich.livejournal.com 2008-05-22 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
No, I've just played so much D&D that I was wondering how Spell-Like Abilities could issue advertisements or invitations.

[identity profile] digitalemur.livejournal.com 2008-05-22 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
No, but that's because I've been in the other SLA since 2002 and I've had to stand in line at Immigration Canada reminding myself not to call it by its abbreviation when explaining why I'm coming to Canada (for annual conference), for fear of worrying them half to death.

And then, of course, we all got on buses to downtown, realized it was a bus full of fellow librarians, and spent the rest of the time kidding around about how we'd _all_ been reminding ourselves to be careful of that.

And yes, we really are plotting.

[identity profile] dlevey.livejournal.com 2008-05-21 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe the whole thing was originally moribund, and they are advertising the fact that they stimulated it back into consciousness?

[identity profile] digitalemur.livejournal.com 2008-05-22 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
I just read far enough to confirm that, this year for the first time, I actually got an invite to this, the most coveted of receptions. Woo! I have finally arrived. (Not that I haven't crashed it in past years.)
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