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(DIR) Post #AaCNZbEDHhXsLU35yy by grammargirl@zirk.us
2023-09-27T16:59:00Z
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Do you have a proud editing or proofreading moment?Mine is that I once caught an error in Chinese. I don’t even know Chinese, but I was moving around some translated words and noticed characters in a common pattern had changed.
(DIR) Post #AaCOJrAqKaxt7YWtuK by vincent@mastodon.coffee
2023-09-27T17:07:20Z
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@grammargirl Not editing, but I caught a typo in a dedication that was written in ancient Greek. It was corrected in later editions.I wish I had an editing story that good! Usually, I just catch 'pore' vs 'pour' and sometimes I get 'effect' vs 'affect' right the first time!
(DIR) Post #AaCONdXGynwfysp7M8 by xahteiwi@mastodon.social
2023-09-27T17:08:01Z
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@grammargirl https://mastodon.social/@xahteiwi/111081178978342677
(DIR) Post #AaCP06OY875oUU5KNc by Taenarian@journa.host
2023-09-27T17:15:00Z
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@grammargirl Serious money on the line when I determine the source of the printed error by examining the type in hexadecimal. A major victory for the away team! #typography #newspaper
(DIR) Post #AaCP9tzl5SWcvfA79M by me@mastodon.peterjanes.ca
2023-09-27T17:16:42Z
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@grammargirlAnother "not editing" response, but in a similar vein: during a college bowl-style competition in high school I gave the correct result for a short FORTRAN program (a language I'd never used nor even seen before) and then defended it successfully when the quizmaster said I was wrong (the answer on his page was actually in error).
(DIR) Post #AaCPl5FODNcSXdCe1o by Karendipitee@mastodon.social
2023-09-27T17:23:27Z
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@grammargirl Not quite a “stop the presses!” moment but it was fixed pretty quickly for 1987.
(DIR) Post #AaCQUiRxJ5c59pq7sW by tomwebster@podcastindex.social
2023-09-27T17:31:42Z
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@grammargirl my first job out of grad school was as a tech writer for a scientific consulting company. My boss sent me a document with the word "Public" in the title except it was missing one crucial letter. Guess the letter for 1000 Webster points
(DIR) Post #AaCRAeUgPCfZ3D716G by lhamilton1515@mstdn.ca
2023-09-27T17:39:18Z
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@grammargirl When I worked in a Canadian government employment office sending folk off to jobs, our job notices that we put up on the job boards were automatically translated into French. I discovered one translation that asked for workers with experience hanging blind people up vertically. The job call was actually for vertical blind hangers.
(DIR) Post #AaCTiOKDE9OmerQkaG by grammargirl@zirk.us
2023-09-27T18:07:46Z
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@lhamilton1515 How funny! Good catch.
(DIR) Post #AaCTodlui2VQIqMpzU by grammargirl@zirk.us
2023-09-27T18:08:47Z
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@DelilahTech Nice!
(DIR) Post #AaCTtxzowXi6TXPbU0 by grammargirl@zirk.us
2023-09-27T18:09:53Z
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@me Nice!
(DIR) Post #AaCTvncMV6gMrnJTkG by grammargirl@zirk.us
2023-09-27T18:10:15Z
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@Taenarian Wow, that is impressive.
(DIR) Post #AaCU40WGPtF9CHNIPI by grammargirl@zirk.us
2023-09-27T18:11:43Z
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@vincent Good one!
(DIR) Post #AaCUcLvNL7LRQgUucy by likelyjanlukas@mstdn.ca
2023-09-27T18:17:52Z
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@grammargirl I was loaned out to a small oil and gas tech firm to write a user manual for a new product. All I had were notes scrawled by electrical engineers and a protype I could push buttons on to see what happened. 😂The engineers knew I was unfamiliar with their field but I impressed them with good questions nonetheless: usually, this was simply me identifying that they failed to use any verbs that might hint what Part A was doing with Part B. Deciphering grammar FTW! 😀
(DIR) Post #AaCV5TALUkoqHoNr3g by Logophilius@indieauthors.social
2023-09-27T18:23:09Z
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@grammargirl Catching this error... eventually... on the final day before we shipped the magazine to the printer.
(DIR) Post #AaCVlM8M1xJmdgQR0a by grammargirl@zirk.us
2023-09-27T18:30:46Z
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@likelyjanlukas Good job!This gave me a shiver remembering the time I was hired to write a user manual for biotech product I had never used, and the company wouldn't let me ask any of the technical people for clarifications because they were "too busy." I absolutely knew I was writing a manual that would leave users frustrated. I never took another project from that client even though they paid especially well. It was just too horrible.
(DIR) Post #AaCVstTmS0wM5N2dk0 by grammargirl@zirk.us
2023-09-27T18:32:04Z
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@Logophilius Wow. It took me a loooong time to see the error.
(DIR) Post #AaCVzPcFsdljUe772W by Logophilius@indieauthors.social
2023-09-27T18:33:18Z
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@grammargirl Yeah. I looked at it at least three times on separate editorial rounds and didn't see it. I keep it on my bulletin board as a constant reminder not to get lazy.
(DIR) Post #AaCWbrXkUmhB72LAzw by likelyjanlukas@mstdn.ca
2023-09-27T18:40:14Z
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@grammargirl Oh, that would be terrible! I'm sorry. ☹️Clarifications are SO critical! Indeed, though it amused me to just push buttons and see what happened, engineers observing me doing that flagged a big design problem: I was leaning my hand against a critical (delicate) component to reach a keypad. It never occured to the designers that users might do this because it was obvious to them that this should NOT be done. But, definitely not obvious to the rest of us! 😬
(DIR) Post #AaCZk0qO6EmO8YdWhk by grammargirl@zirk.us
2023-09-27T19:15:22Z
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@likelyjanlukas User testing is so important!