One of my co-workers (not an editor) e-mailed this to me. I've seen it before, but I didn't have a blog back then, now did I?
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdgnieg The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aodccrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dnsoe't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the hmuan mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azmanig huh?
Yaeh and I awlyas tghuoht slpeling was ipmorantt
Spelling isn't all that important. That can be fixed with a run through the spellchecker. Here's what's driving me batty about this text: It's missing two periods, one sentence is a fragment, there are unneeded words, and don’t even get me started about the comma.
OK, back to work.
- theCallowQueen
- In the down-hill tumble of life, I'm okay with the scratches and bruises; it's the broken bones that I'm trying to avoid.
11 comments:
So does the editor side of your brain ever turn off? Just curious. It doesn't for my sister - we were at the mall and saw a poster advertising something on the "22th" and she just about flipped out.
The 22th?! One of my friends would've had to stop my attempt to rip the poster down. I have this huge problem with misplaced apostrophes. Add one with an "s" and the word becomes possessive, people, not plural! But I’m not obsessive or anything.
On my first day of my first editing class in college, my professor sent us out to find five errors on campus. It was a horrible experience. Once I found my five, I found another five, and then another.
Once my eyes were opened to the horror of the errors that riddled signs, posters, and restaurant menus (I hate reading menus), I could not shut them again. I could not go back. Like with most things, once you see the flaws, you can't ignore them.
Is your sister an editor or a writer? What type of publication does she work for?
Teh ptaoiuncutn. aynons me too, I'm a scikeltr for uinsg cercort ptaoiuncutn. Do tsehe wrdos raed rghit? The lrgear the wrod the hdearr it would be to raed.
-l42
I arege, leragr wrods culod ptotlnaiey be mroe tseloumbore to raed. An aidse, I tnihk taht yuor "teh" sohlud be "the" bucsaee the frist and lsat letetr need to rminae the smae.
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Managing editor for a religous publishing company - you can check out her blog at http://poorrolemodel.blogspot.com. And while I'm handing out links, you also might find http://adventuresofmrk.blogspot.com - every week he does a rant about grammar.
Freaks. All of them.
>>Freaks. All of them
Would you have it any other way?
I am an absolutely nazi when it comes to punctuation; I immediately noticed the fragmented sentences and missing punctuation. My two biggest pet peeves: apostrophes in inappropriate places or to make a word plural and periods at the end of questioning sentances.
AMG
http://anonymousmidwestgirl.blogspot.com/
I also hate it when people incorrectly correct themselves or others and use "you and I" because they've been taught "you and me" is always wrong. Jane and I went to the grocery store. Dick with to the store with Jane and me. “Me” really is OK, promise.
I meant to use the. My bad.
"Jane and Me" is used in prepositional phrases. It's only when in a noun clause that "I" is used.
Prepositional phrases. Noun clauses. "I" when it's a subject. "Me" when it's an object. Heady stuff that, quite frankly, most of us don't like to think about. (Maybe we should trade jobs. How are you at identifying dangling and misplaced modifiers? I'm lousy at spotting the buggers.)
The easy way to avoid the I or me confusion: Just remove the second party from the sentence. Then it'd be obvious in my going to the store sentences above that "me" would be wrong in the former and "I" would be wrong in the latter.
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