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Road Scholar Copy Edits America

A new addition to my list of heroes? OK, maybe not. But I would totally hang out with this guy. And by "hang out," I mean "act like dorks."

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"We try not to be jerks about it," he said. "We want to help them out. It's not about making anybody feel bad or making somebody look stupid or something. It's just really about going after the errors themselves."
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	Carlos44ec - Tater Salad? 04/09/2008 @ 07:33:02 AM
Get a job, hippie!		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.

	Jeremy - 9543 Posts 04/09/2008 @ 09:33:55 AM
I don't know what it is with the apostrophe usage. Somehow we've decided a's a nation that any word that end's with an "s" should have an apostrophe. He's totally right on the "monkey see monkey do" aspect of written language, and it's not just stupid/ignorant people saying to themselve's "I don't know what to do so I'll just copy that sign." It happen's to all of us behind the scene's. We have a client that consistently use's the wrong their/there/they're and after exchanging email's with them enough and working on there sight long enough I found myself using the wrong one all the time.		Rate this comment Yours: Total: Rated 2 times.
Jeremy perfected this at 04/09/2008 9:34:04 am

	Carlos44ec - 2079 Posts 04/09/2008 @ 10:36:24 AM
You're poast ha's piss-ed meh of.		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.

	PackOne - 1528 Posts 04/09/2008 @ 06:22:11 PM
That is one of the best finds in a long time. I like that guy. I don't care who you are, if you haven't made the your/you're mistake ... you're lying. EDIT: To extend this to punctuation, what is correct? He wanted to be considered "in". or He wanted to be considered "in."		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.
PackOne edited this at 04/09/2008 6:31:11 pm

	Jeremy - 9543 Posts 04/09/2008 @ 06:34:49 PM
It depends on where you live. To me the top one makes more sense, in America, I think, the bottom one is the "right one." (The British do the punctuation outside.) I did the you're/your thing this morning, I'm sure everyone does it, it's not noticing it that's the problem. In this case, not noticing it on a sign that's going to represent your company forever.		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.
Jeremy edited this at 04/09/2008 6:35:35 pm

	PackOne - 1528 Posts 04/09/2008 @ 06:37:42 PM
I am starting to think that the proper way is ... He wanted to be considered 'in'. I think you are not supposed to use them for in-text humor.		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.