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Proofreading

  • Apr. 9th, 2007 at 5:09 PM
books, words
Noticing grammar mistakes became bitching about grammar mistakes became telling the editor became doing an occasional job as unpaid proofreader for a prominent car blog. I like proofreading; it gives me a sense of pleasure and accomplishment, slightly improving the way something flows. They say to enjoy the small pleasures in life, and I don't know that there is a smaller pleasure in the entire world than correcting a hyphen or an apostrophe.

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[info]xtypenrrdx wrote:
Apr. 10th, 2007 12:23 am (UTC)
I quite agree! I've found that to be, over the years, one of the little pleasures of my job.
[info]runehog wrote:
Apr. 10th, 2007 01:31 am (UTC)
The kinda sick thing is that I get to release that particular pressure doing code reviews. Well, comments-within-code reviews. "Dude, your comma is in the wrong place!"

[info]angryrobot wrote:
Apr. 10th, 2007 01:20 pm (UTC)
your,s truly
[info]blahblahnyborg wrote:
Apr. 11th, 2007 04:36 pm (UTC)
Ha! Yes! One of my favorite parts of my job is proofreading briefs before we file them. It's gotten to the point that I proofread all the briefs, even if I didn't work on them, because I love it, and I do a really good job.

Yay proofreaders!!!