When the editor messes up...

self-deprecating is a big word?!?

In the immortal words of John Belushi -- "seven years of college wasted..."

 

It is in daytona, dan.

 

self-defacating, that's a pretty big blunder no matter how many times the editor has fixed your oopses.

 

Ask the editor to write a column taking credit for the famous gaffe or ask the editor if you can write a column giving him all the credit.

 

....it's a day that ends in "y."

 

I believe he's not in Daytona and hasn't been in a while.

 

No, there's nothing you can do. But how does anyone make a mistake like this unintentionally? It's not as though someone was trying to correct one letter in a typo. And the keys involved hardly are close to one another. I lean toward this not being an innocent error.

 

Have sex with his wife.

 

Sometimes spellcheck does weird things. An editor once spell-checked my story (or maybe just did it on his own) and milquetoast became "milk toast." Often copy editors catch mistakes. Sometimes they insert them.

 

Some brainiac changed Charles Schulz to Charles "Schultz" in a huge take-out feature I once did. Nothing quite like reading 40 inches of shit and then having the guy who made me look like a monkey shrug his shoulders and say "mistakes happen." This is an asshole who once told me "I am the stylebook." I'd still love to punch him in the face for it, but on a deeper level somebody should just do it because he's a prick. </rant>

 

Even worse, he misspelled defecating.

 

Have you used self-defecating in a story?