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)
Maybe I should have put my comment on the site here rather than there - what do you think? Should one alert the writer to things that show them up as illiterate? I said:
"The headline is a bit too telling as far as the text is concerned. English language fail!"
For a terrible moment there I thought I had written "to telling". There are few worse feelings than the one just after sticking the knife into someone for bad spelling and making an error while doing so!
Maybe I should have put my comment on the site here rather than there - what do you think? Should one alert the writer to things that show them up as illiterate? I said:
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For a terrible moment there I thought I had written "to telling". There are few worse feelings than the one just after sticking the knife into someone for bad spelling and making an error while doing so!
To true, Denis, to true (that's a joke, by the way - in case anyone else is reading and doesn't recognise it as such.)
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