BBC Takes a cue from Nationwide's current advertising campaign. Is there a world's worst dictator elsewhere?
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Department of Dictatorship Department
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Saturday, October 3, 2009
A Point to Reuters
It's nice to see a publisher get something right once in a while. Here Reuters does it with class coming and going: they quote their source's apostrophetic typaux pas verbatim and then gently replace the victim's possessive with the correct plural in their own coverage.
Nice.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Gimme an "m"!
I'm mad as he'll and I'm not going to take this anymore!
Publishers used to employ people called "Copyeditors". The job of the copyeditor was to save the publisher the embarrassment of letting the audience know that the rest of his staff couldn't write.
The Internet and the Kindle haven't quite killed pubishers yet, but they've killed copyeditors stone cold dead.
The Vigilante Copyeditor is not amused. The Vigilante Copyeditor is tired of reading illiterate garbage. The Vigilante Copyeditor thinks that if publishers have decided to save expenses instead of saving embarrassment, they might as well HAVE the embarrassment.
The Vigilante Copyeditor is taking matters into his own hands.
Publishers beware.
The Internet and the Kindle haven't quite killed pubishers yet, but they've killed copyeditors stone cold dead.
The Vigilante Copyeditor is not amused. The Vigilante Copyeditor is tired of reading illiterate garbage. The Vigilante Copyeditor thinks that if publishers have decided to save expenses instead of saving embarrassment, they might as well HAVE the embarrassment.
The Vigilante Copyeditor is taking matters into his own hands.
Publishers beware.
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