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Editor? We Don't Need No Steenking Editor!
Copy editing... it's not just a job, it's an adventure:
It is therefore only a matter of imagination in getting people to freely download what could be an extremely dangerous worm - like, for instance, the Doom worm currently reeking havoc across the globe. [emphasis added]
Gotta love that Microsoft thesaurus. Sometimes, automation just helps you screw up faster.
Predictably, not a single ass-monkey at FARK (where I found this) commented on the goof. Too busy getting into a browser holy war.
The Farkers must be afraid of being accused of being homonymphobic.
Note to Farkers: If you don't get it, look it up.
(Note to those who get it: This should be fun.)
Posted by: Rob on January 28, 2004 03:34 PMTrust me, all they'd see was "nymph" and start giggling and clicking around for boobies.
Gotta love 'em!
Posted by: scott on January 28, 2004 03:36 PMDon't get me started on the decline of copyediting in the computer age. The %$^*(&*)( suits think that cause you got spell check, you don't need an intelligent and educated person to fine-tune the writing.
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she slopes off, muttering under her breath, into the darkness.
Posted by: liz on January 28, 2004 08:18 PM"who's" from the previous post could be whose
Yes, I realize blogs are different, not for profit and not having editors. I just find it funny that right after I saw that you were commenting on others doing it.
Posted by: Sherri on January 28, 2004 11:55 PMNice call. Fixed now.
However, I still think "wreaking/reeking" is an order of magnitude worse than "whose/who's". Of course, others might disagree :).
Posted by: Scott on January 29, 2004 08:11 AM