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)
Monday, 16 April 2012
Cambridge, Massachusetts
You know you're near a really good university, when you see this kind of protest in the street:
"Use proper grammar". Not a very familiar phrase in Canberra, more's the pity.
This isn't the same as those trespassing policemen above who would have to prosecute themselves, but we were amused on our walk to see a sign DO NOT STEAL SOLAR LIGHTS FROM THIS PROPERTY. We wouldn't even have seen the lights till our attention was directed to them. Luckily, we weren't in thieving mode.
This isn't the same as those trespassing policemen above who would have to prosecute themselves, but we were amused on our walk to see a sign DO NOT STEAL SOLAR LIGHTS FROM THIS PROPERTY. We wouldn't even have seen the lights till our attention was directed to them. Luckily, we weren't in thieving mode.
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