On Copyediting

I saw this today on That Girl From Shallotte, and when first saw the post was titled Your Welcome, I cringed a little. Turns out she was talking about how she also hates my least-favorite grammar error. I try not to be a grammar freak, especially on informal blogs, but the your/you’re thing shows such a fundamental lack of understanding about two very basic words, it drives me crazy.

Editing incorporates a lot of skills. The hardest is copy editing, where every little typo that slips by, no matter how many other things you fixed, is on your ass. It’s not fun. That’s why when my first column as an “Our Lives” columnist in the Raleigh News and Observer misspelled my name, captioned my print picture as “married to a English scientist” and the online interview as “Leigh Ann Frink describes why he wants to be a correspondent,” I was glad it happened to me and not someone else who would have written a snotty letter to the editor.

Via That girl from Shallotte: Your Welcome