When someone tells (not asks, but commands) that you make something wrong, they are a complete fucking idiot and should be lobotomized and sent out to pasture.
Today, while proofing an ad, I was told to put a comma between a number and the word it was modifying. Yeah. And it came from on high from our client. So, my answer to that was, if you're going to make it wrong in one place, it needs to be wrong throughout the whole ad (consistency, people!). So that is what I did. I found two other instances and made them both equally wrong.
I will go home now, take a long shower to try and get all the wrongness washed out (I feel so dirty and itchy), and then maybe drink myself into a stupor.
Yeah. I need a new job ...
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Tragedy. Please, oh please tell me they don't make you write "Web site" as "website" and "online" as "on-line."
The bane of a proofer's existence is the stubborn and ignorant high authority that is the client.
depending on the client, it's either Web site or website. same goes or serial commas. but our main/biggest client, they're the fuckign idiots. everytime they say to make something wrong, i want to send them the page in the chicago manual or the dictionary page that proves them wrong, but i've been told that would be rude to do. i don't; i think it would be showing them that they're stupid people that shouldn't live. i'm not bitter ...
Me, neither, drrrrrrrrr-ti-drrrrr (that's my wee-toded voice), comma, comma, comma. ,
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