04-18-2010, 08:37 PM | #1 |
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Why copy editors are a good idea
http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/ar...4224?icid=main
"An Australian publisher is reprinting 7,000 cookbooks over a recipe for pasta with "salt and freshly ground black people."" |
04-18-2010, 08:43 PM | #2 |
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So is the thread title an intentional joke?
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04-18-2010, 08:47 PM | #3 |
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Pretty sloppy joe of those editors! They should be fried!
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04-18-2010, 08:58 PM | #4 |
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Damon Knight is probably rofl-ing in his grave!
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04-18-2010, 09:01 PM | #5 |
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04-18-2010, 09:02 PM | #6 |
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Anyone can make a mistake, and I can see someone under pressure to make a deadline typing "people" instead of "pepper"; but what really shows cluelessness is the statement by Bob Sessions, the head of publishing for Penguin Group Australia:
"[W]hy anyone would be offended, we don't know." |
04-19-2010, 01:08 AM | #7 |
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I already started this thread yesterday. and am getting a lot of flak for thinking the publisher is out of line
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Although this is an egregious error, it is a rarer error type than the type of errors usually seen. I'm reading the new David Weber novel (in hardcover) from Tor and the first error I spotted was the use of flour for flow.
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Why copy editors are a bad idea== some times the lack of one can create a new meme!
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