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)
Saturday, 6 August 2011
So True
They're certainly ruling the Sydney Morning Herald. Apparently nobody there can actually be bothered to check whether all the necessary words appear on the printed page.
Apparently nobody there can make a transparent gif image that would have solved the problem. Inscrutability? (There's got to be an artwiculate opening here...) Oh, I have seen some doozies in the local papers and haven't kept the. Will be on the lookout from now on!
Apparently nobody there can make a transparent gif image that would have solved the problem. Inscrutability? (There's got to be an artwiculate opening here...)
ReplyDeleteOh, I have seen some doozies in the local papers and haven't kept the. Will be on the lookout from now on!
kept the = kept them. Pots and kettles. Need a sub!
ReplyDeleteThe slovenly shall inherit the earth? I await my check.
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