Friday, September 24, 2010

"#@^*&! The Writers Write," Part I

One of my jobs is to work as a copy editor for several websites. Often, the material is dry. But it brings a bit of joy to my day to be able to fix the hanging fruit of stupid or lazy mistakes. (I think, "Well, at least I'm smarter than that guy!") In the last couple of weeks, for instance, I came across these rotten peaches:

Marine Core (they're looking for a few good apples?)
Statue of limitations (what, the statue had no arms?)
Great Smokey Mountains (nope, no "e" in Smoky... and the entire story was about this misspelled region)

Also, one story about the best bike tours of D.C. included a whole section on Segway rentals (ahh, Segways are those motorized stand-up scooters. D'oh!).

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