At my job, sometimes I check other people's editing work and sometimes they check mine. Sometimes I make mistakes or miss something, and sometimes my colleagues make outrageous errors!
Just tonight, someone had left the mistake "prehistoric to gambling" instead of replacing it with "predisposed to gambling." By the way, the speaker was saying that Asians gamble more than any other people. Maybe the editor thought that Asians' love of gambling is rooted way back in time.
This is my latest favorite "correction" of my own work:
I prefer the more formal “without further adieu” vs. “ado”
It just doesn't get much stupider.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
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