When proofreaders go missing: a blog of errors, designed to demonstrate why sub-editors and copy editors remain important, at a time when they are increasingly regarded as optional extras (all contributions welcome; to follow on Twitter - zmkc)
Friday, 26 November 2010
Australian Financial Review, 25th November, 2010
The curse of the subs hits another female journalist - Laura Tingle this time, and she wasn't even trying to be funny (can she be; has it ever been known?)
"Their confidence would help boost the case the government must make the win back", indeed.
I was trying to be ironic. I meant that there may be an acceptable grammatical parse of that sentence - only in theory, it being nonsense semantically - but that I and all my fellow human beings are too dull-witted and entrenched in our knowledge of English As She Is Spoke to spot it.
Clearly, the Microsoft Word Spelling and Grammar Checker can parse what no human alive can - I feel rather humbled!
ReplyDeleteHuh? Didn't quite follow that, Gadjo.
ReplyDeleteI was trying to be ironic. I meant that there may be an acceptable grammatical parse of that sentence - only in theory, it being nonsense semantically - but that I and all my fellow human beings are too dull-witted and entrenched in our knowledge of English As She Is Spoke to spot it.
ReplyDeleteOh, irony, silly me.
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