Thursday, April 27, 2006

The Editor's Tick

Bet all you scribes out there didn't know (or care?) that copy editors have different, specialized areas of editing neurosis. Every copy editor is driven to special distraction by a certain type of error; sometimes editors can become so fixated on that error that they gloss over other things that need fixing in copy.

Personally, I fixate on the "one-word, two-word or hyphenated" question. I bet I open the dictionary 50 times in a shift to look up terms like "lockjaw," "cell phone" and "jump-start."

What about you, oh geeks of mine? What copy error is your (dis)pleasure?

9 Comments:

Blogger Bad D said...

I'm on constant watch for the misuse of "bemused."

2:45 PM  
Blogger The Narrator said...

That's funny. I'm on constant watch for reruns of "Bewitched."

5:15 PM  
Blogger Mr. Angle said...

craig: I am not bemused.

derek: Your cue.

11:57 PM  
Blogger Leslie said...

In our recently deceased microzones, I would frequently see the word "pre-registration." It drove me to the brink of insanity. Whenever I came across it, I imagined long lines of frazzled mothers holding paperwork, desperate to register to register their kids for something.

3:41 PM  
Blogger The Narrator said...

The Chief is right about my headline. Goddamn hell.

And, I'm with you, Leslie. I usually see "pre-register" in the same graf as "free and open to the public."

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