Copyediting matters, Example 812

[mrissa]

"You are hot, my prince." != "You are not my prince." Um. Very different story, that.

Comments

[shana.livejournal.com]

#1 sounds NSFW. At least potentially.

[guppiecat]

But the prince is the son of the king. Were he also to be the sun of the king, he would indeed be hot. In fact, since suns perform nuclear fusion (as opposed to the (cell) nuclear fission that sons commonly perform), they could be said to be charming, albeit in a very quarky way.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

*groooooan*

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It's a very, very poorly copyedited edition of Romance of the Three Kingdoms. So as long as your workplace is okay with lots of violence, it's so far been completely worksafe. Just not...exactly as it would have been in a world with ideal copyediting, let's say.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Ah, a new website: Hot Or Not, My Prince.

[retrobabble.livejournal.com]

*snicker*

[redbird]

Indeed; the former belongs in a romance novel starring a nurse.

[profrobert.livejournal.com]

That's it: If I ever need someone to spin something, I'm calling you.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Right: it's not bad copyediting, it's rich textual ambiguity.

[shana.livejournal.com]

I was mentally casting John Barrowman as the prince.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

If Romance of the Three Kingdoms features a nurse, I haven't gotten to that bit yet.

[arielstarshadow.livejournal.com]

Perhaps the Prince was feverish at the time?

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

dot com.

Hotcha!

[jymdyer.livejournal.com]

=v= These could be equivalent statements, provided that the speaker is determined to make Hottie McRoyalpants hers/his.

[summers-place.livejournal.com]

Charming!


(grin, duck, run)

[callunav.livejournal.com]

Cannot. Stop. Laughing.


..of course, I was imagining this as being copy-editing of something you wrote, which made it even funnier. It's still pretty entertaining.

[callunav.livejournal.com]

I wish you could hear how loudly I just laughed. Or maybe it's better left to the imagination.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It's much funnier about someone else's work, thankyaverymuch! If it was mine, I'd have to tear my hair and groan and wonder whether I should submit to that mag ever again.