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Not only newspapers but even publishers of books. As a translator occasionally hired to translate works of literature, I do the best I can, but my manuscript st
by Mediterraneo10 6y ago
Not only newspapers but even publishers of books. As a translator occasionally hired to translate works of literature, I do the best I can, but my manuscript still needs to go before a good proofreader and copyeditor to make everything just perfect before it is published. I have been dismayed at how now, publishers no longer use in-house staff but just hire an incompetent or lazy copywriter from the developing world off some freelancing platform. The same holds for typesetting. Sometimes the end result is worse than my original manuscript!
Sadly, publishers 1) are competing with e.g. books self-published on Amazon, and 2) noticed that the mass market consuming those Amazon self-published efforts seems pretty OK with content that is full of typos and bad-quality typesetting, so why even bother any more?
- Zelphyr 6y agoA medical provider I know had a medical assistant that would write charts that were next to illegible. Little to no punctuation or capitalization. Slang. etc... The provider invariably had to go back and rewrite the charts because they didn't want that associated with their name. It's no wonder more and more people don't care about virtually unedited published content. In addition to not caring, often times they don't even know the difference. Which begs the question for me: what is it they say we're getting with all these standardized tests and the singular focus on teaching kids to pass those tests again? Because it seems to me we're about to have a populace doesn't read and can't write.