U, dammit, u!

[mrissa]

There is a difference between a period of morning (between dawn and noon, say) and a period of mourning (for which dawn-to-noon seems a bit brisk). And if you are a published author or the editor of that published author or the copy-editor of that published author, you should know the @#&$*$! difference! YARRRRRRG!

The Secrets of Jin-Shei is the culprit in this particular bit of howling. Not once but multiple, multiple times.

Comments

[msagara.livejournal.com]

There is a teeny, tiny chance that this was a printer's error that wasn't caught by the proof-reader or the author; there's also an unfortunate chance that the corrections to the page proofs weren't entered.

Which is to say, there's every chance that it was caught in the manuscript (which is where the copy-editor would come in), and introduced later in the process.

Ummm, not that this is any less irritation-making.

[msagara.livejournal.com]

The only errors that drive me really nuts are the ones that make me stop reading and go back to the beginning of the previous sentence again. Errors in punctuation or formatting do that to me frequently; missing end quote marks, italics that went on for too long, things like that.

If it's just spelling, I can usually ignore it -- because at this point, if you haven't developed at least some of that ability, you're probably ready for the padded cells <wry g>.

[msagara.livejournal.com]

Truly, this is why I sometimes think I should move toward looking for a job as a peon copy-editor. I had the mentality for it in *5th grade.*

While it's not the world's best-paying job, I think it would be decent part-time work. I would be awful at it; I could probably proof-read someone else's work, but I don't think I could copy-edit <g>.

[msagara.livejournal.com]

Besides, wouldn't it be nice for writers to *know* a copy-editor they could roast over the flames for failing to catch mo(u)rning type mistakes? ;-)

LOL!! It's probably for this very reason that we're never told the names of our copy-editors <wry g>.

[dendrophilous.livejournal.com]

Newspapers are oftn looking for copy editors, and the evening shift makes for more writing time during the day, I find. (Once the lizard is in school. And it's presumably not easy on family life.)

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

Really? Wonder what the qualifications are. And the pay?

[dendrophilous.livejournal.com]

Depends on the paper, I guess. I'm not one. A lot of them do layout as well as copyediting.