More from the badly copyedited book.

Nov 10, 2010 20:35


Dear c/e: The Faerie Queen is Titania, not Tatiana.

I would give you a pass for not spotting a subtle spelling error like that, except that

(a) you're a freaking copyeditor and it's your job to spot it, and

(b) I spotted it and I'm not even reading the thing, just glancing over the pages looking for typesetting problems.

This is why so many incompetents with Dunning-Kruger syndrome think they can copyedit. Because some incompetents do.

bad prose

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