If one were going to work in an office, what would it mean to "read verbatim"?

Question

I am searching through the newspaper looking for a job and the help wanted add says that the qualified person would be able to read verbatim

Answer 1

You should be able to read the written word exactly as it is written. Many people who are not astute readers overlook simple words, or replace them with more convenient ones, sometimes combining two usually related words into one. Obviously, this is NOT verbatim, which is latin for "as it is spoken" - in this case, written (spoken in letters). Hasty reading or reading as you might speak is a detrement to vocations where exact verbiage is essential.

Answer 2

I've just learned something in looking this up. I have heard reciting something verbatim, but I never heard of to 'read verbatim' before.

I just looked it up on my computer dictionary,, 'read verbatim' and the result was that there is nothing on that, and asked me if I meant 'river bottom'... well, that's not reading verbatim, is it?

It could also be that many people do not have enough vocabulary to understand every word in a document, and so they read the words they can and skip the ones they don't know. Sometimes a document might be very long and tedious, and there would be a temptation to just skim through it. the other poster is also right that some people can't read very well, and they guess at what it says and often guess wrong. In some places, like government or law the exact wording is very important.

It seems that there is also a kind of CD-R that is called Verbatim,, so if the V is capitalized then it calls for reading this particular kind of disc.. see link: http://forums.pcworld.co.nz/archive/index.php/t-46775.html

Answer 3

verbatim = word for word like a teacher reading off the rules for a standarized test or something

Answer 4

Read just as it says. Word for word. Exactly.

Answer 5

It means word for word... like, you're given a script and you have to memorize it exactly, you can't add any variations to what's written.

Answer 6

to read verbatim would be to read exactally as it is written.

Answer 7

It means to read printed text exactly as printed, without mistakes, without editing and without adhoc commentary.

Answer 8

it means to read word by word exactly as written..

Answer 9

Vebatim is word of word.

Answer 10

It means to read and NOT to make inferences.