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Are you addicted to copy editing?

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Flash, Jul 23, 2008.

  1. Flash

    Flash Guest

    My friends try to use big words around me. So, I say to them 'spell that word.'

    Because if you can't spell it, you shouldn't be allowed to use it.

    Voracious, not voratious
    Facetious, not fececious

    Yeah, I know. My friends are dumb, but I love them.
     
  2. longgone

    longgone Member

    from my long-ago days on the copy desk, I still find myself "counting" the letters on signs....A capital A is 1.5, lowercase l is 1/2, etc.
    pretty sick.
     
  3. trifectarich

    trifectarich Well-Known Member

    Ohmygod. I thought I was only one who did this.
     
  4. terrier

    terrier Well-Known Member

    Copy editing...because those of us who made it well into adulthood with Asperger's syndrome need to earn a living, too.
     
  5. mike311gd

    mike311gd Active Member

    My favorite sign: Authorized personal only.
     
  6. greenlantern

    greenlantern Guest

    Saw this on a sign at a gas station: "We sell noveltyies."
     
  7. Sam Mills 51

    Sam Mills 51 Well-Known Member

    MINE IS BROKEN
     
  8. Corky Ramirez up on 94th St.

    Corky Ramirez up on 94th St. Well-Known Member

    "The unhappiest man in Brooklyn is sitting up here in the far end of the press box. The 'V' on his typewriter is broken. He can't write either Lavagetto or Bevens."
     
  9. Frank_Ridgeway

    Frank_Ridgeway Well-Known Member

    My wife couldn't believe I edited our wedding announcement. We had written it together, and I used AP style for the state abbreviation. They sent us back a proof with the address using the postal abbreviation for the state, and I marked it up and sent it back. Wife said is it that big a deal to make them change it? I said, they must think so since they changed my fucking copy.
     
  10. buckweaver

    buckweaver Active Member

    Those two posts, back to back, were the best I've read today. Good stuff, y'all. :D
     
  11. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    bUT YOUR cAPS lOCK KEY WORKS!
     
  12. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    dAMN STRAIGHT, fRANK. i STILL BUY MYSELF A NEW COPY OF THE ap sTYLEBOOK EVERY YEAR.

    :D
     
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