Purpose of punctuation - On site QA Posted: May 27th, 2017 - 8:27 am In Reply to: The purpose of punctuation is to elucidate and disambiguate the shift - from
If you think that QA personnel are stupid and ignorant, perhaps you should apply for the job and help to straighten everyone out. I worked as an on site QA coordinator. I think you have some misconceptions about the job and the people who do the job. I had over 30 years experience as an MT and I have never known anyone who was just thrown into that job; you might be mistaken about the caliber of people who are applying and being hired. It's difficult, and listening to complaints from MTs who think they know it all and can do no wrong is one of the challenges. Comma use can be subjective and in the examples you cite it would be difficult to interpret simply by listening to the dictation. Actually, the use of semicolons has nothing to do with whether or not it is a complete sentence. They can be used in place of the word "and" to connect thoughts in a sentence or when punctuation stronger than a comma is needed. In your example, either way would not have been wrong, but those things probably should not be counted as errors. I have seen transcribed documents from MTs who didn't understand comma placement, and commas can be overused, but unless it changes the meaning of a sentence it is not supposed to be counted as an error. Hyphenation is a gray area as well. To me, it sounds as if your QA staff are not consistent in the way they grade your reports or maybe they don't research things properly before making decisions. Personally, I resent being pigeonholed as know nothing and incompetent because you have some bad apples where you work. There are good QA people and incompetent QA people just as there are good MTs and incompetent MTs..
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