Friday, September 21, 2007

Light Copyediting Humor


5 comments:

Toby said...

Clearly, the eject button is on the left.

Laura said...

Because the "which" applies to the immediate preceding clause, naturally.

Can you imagine the professional society meetings? I thought the indexers would be bad...

And, oh, what a shame. It looks like Erik just missed an event in his area.

erik said...

i was a member of some copyediting association (the name of which i have banished from my head) back in my freelancing days, but i never attanded anyof their "meetings," which mainly consisted of playing scrabble in local bars.

Laura said...

You say that like it's a bad thing...

erik said...

it sounds like fun, until some mistakes one of the blank tiles for a cheez-it.