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Wednesday, July 09, 2008

The Absence of Copy Editors

You just have to read it to understand. This article appeared in The Washington Post last month. Hysterical!

5 comments:

writtenexpressions said...

Oh, that's good stuff!

Irreverent Freelancer said...

How on earth did I miss this article? I spotted the first two errors immediately and knew I was in for a treat. Thanks for sharing.

Amanda Nicole said...

Oh, that's rich. This was my fave,

"Grotesque cultural insensitivity in the line about Jewish women."

Haha, can you imagine a copy editor writing that in the margin? And I didn't know we could pistol whip interviewees...

Rebecca Smith said...

This is just too much fun. Thanks for sharing, Lori! Loved it.

--Deb said...

Oh, I love this article! I would never have seen it without your link so, thanks. Too hilarious.