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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."

Here's an important comment to keep in mind while you are reading:

"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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vignette.bmpCarlos44ec - Since 1980!
04/09/2008 @ 07:33:02 AM
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Get a job, hippie!
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fry6beeu9.jpgJeremy - 9506 Posts
04/09/2008 @ 09:33:55 AM
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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.
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Jeremy screwed with this at 04/09/2008 9:34:04 am
face.bmpCarlos44ec - 2079 Posts
04/09/2008 @ 10:36:24 AM
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You're poast ha's piss-ed meh of.
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flower .jpgPackOne - Don't mess with Jeremy. He owns your tag lines.
04/09/2008 @ 06:22:11 PM
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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."
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PackOne perfected this at 04/09/2008 6:31:11 pm
jeremy.jpgJeremy - 9506 Posts
04/09/2008 @ 06:34:49 PM
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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.
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Jeremy screwed with this at 04/09/2008 6:35:35 pm
avatar2345.jpgPackOne - "That's what I call gettin a piece of Pi"
04/09/2008 @ 06:37:42 PM
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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.
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