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Jan. 13th, 2010 11:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivkaThis is the worst job of professional copyediting I have ever seen.
I understand spell-check errors. I can tolerate "silting" for "sitting," I guess, and I can rescue the meaning when "for" is substituted for "floor." I wince, but I see how it happens.
But then there are the errors that make the author look stupid. Please do not have a character adjust her "economically perfect desk chair," because you will jolt me right out of the story. And FOR THE LOVE OF GOD do not have a bunch of college-educated professionals who work with language for a living as newspaper reporters and columnists keep using the construction "suppose to."
Somewhere in the dimly-lit corners of Cornell University, a bust of William Strunk, Jr. has tears trickling down its dusty face.
Updated to add: ZOMG someone just ordered "trench fries."
I understand spell-check errors. I can tolerate "silting" for "sitting," I guess, and I can rescue the meaning when "for" is substituted for "floor." I wince, but I see how it happens.
But then there are the errors that make the author look stupid. Please do not have a character adjust her "economically perfect desk chair," because you will jolt me right out of the story. And FOR THE LOVE OF GOD do not have a bunch of college-educated professionals who work with language for a living as newspaper reporters and columnists keep using the construction "suppose to."
Somewhere in the dimly-lit corners of Cornell University, a bust of William Strunk, Jr. has tears trickling down its dusty face.
Updated to add: ZOMG someone just ordered "trench fries."
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Date: 2010-01-13 04:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-13 05:01 pm (UTC)Sometimes I wonder if proofreading/copyediting is seriously becoming an optional item - between budget cuts and the invention of spellcheck, it seems it must be tempting to put out (probably the low profit margin?) books that simply were *not* reviewed.
*sigh*