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I imagine you read plenty of "look-overs" without noticing them. I also imagine that the editors at (say) The Verge do find and fix plenty of mistakes that you
by yreg 5y ago
I imagine you read plenty of "look-overs" without noticing them. I also imagine that the editors at (say) The Verge do find and fix plenty of mistakes that you wouldn't notice anyway. In this case there's a combination where they didn't notice and you did.
Proofreading is difficult because your mind subsconsciously fixes the text you are processing. Editors need to focus hard, but as we all know it's tough to maintain focus while doing monotonous tasks.
- easterncalculus 5y agoProofreading is definitely hard, I've made tons of mistakes just on this site. The reason I bring it up is because it is more than a technicality and in the first bit of the article. I would also imagine that editors miss things all the time, but I really think that if one read this it would have been caught. It's not a big problem, the meaning is still there, but it seems like a trend to me with online journalism at least, and I was wondering if others felt similarly or if I'm just being unfair.
- yreg 5y agoI see. Some professional editor would have to chime in and tell us. :) I as an amateur have proofread texts for my friends many times and I often missed very visible mistakes. But it's not my job of course, maybe specialists have some methods beyond reading carefully.