Copyedit 101

[ggould]

bad, bad bobbleheads...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/ratto/detail?blogid=64&entry_id=40655

uh, my browser says: "Comments have been removed from this entry."

what was the gist?

[RGMike]

bad, bad bobbleheads...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/ratto/detail?blogid=64&entry_id=40655

uh, my browser says: "Comments have been removed from this entry."

what was the gist?

no idea why they removed the comments.

[Tinka Cat]

bad, bad bobbleheads...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/ratto/detail?blogid=64&entry_id=40655

uh, my browser says: "Comments have been removed from this entry."

what was the gist?

no idea why they removed the comments.

I still see them:

cuppingmaster
5/27/2009 11:01:26 AM

So was this whole thing a spoof?

dcsportsbog.com? 300 pennies?

I hope.

   
palmer2johnsont
5/26/2009 5:11:05 PM

i admit: i'm a nats fan. you giants and A's fans here in the Bay Area, you guys can take pride in the fact that the Nationals are the biggest joke in baseball.

   
sanfrandodgerfa
5/26/2009 2:56:24 PM

Ratto-this is an amazing indictment of editorial competence...considering the lack of same at the Chron and 'Gate...

   
hellyeahman
5/26/2009 2:13:08 PM

....um, hobbes2d, did you read the whole sentence? the "no, those aren't typographical errors" part?

Ratto, if you haven't done it yet, you should send this to failblog dot org. I'm amazed at the ineptitude. Signed, a hardcore A's fan.

   
hobbes2d
5/26/2009 1:52:34 PM

Apparently Ray and whoever edits this page didn't go to school either. Natinals? HA! No wonder you're going out of business.

[RGMike]

bad, bad bobbleheads...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/ratto/detail?blogid=64&entry_id=40655

uh, my browser says: "Comments have been removed from this entry."

what was the gist?

no idea why they removed the comments.

I still see them

they're really classic examples of how stupid many of the SFGate commenters are; they're calling Ratto stupid for misspelling "Natinals" when the misspelling is the whole point of the post. Sheesh.

[Tinka Cat]

bad, bad bobbleheads...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/ratto/detail?blogid=64&entry_id=40655

uh, my browser says: "Comments have been removed from this entry."

what was the gist?

no idea why they removed the comments.

I still see them

they're really classic examples of how stupid many of the SFGate commenters are; they're calling Ratto stupid for misspelling "Natinals" when the misspelling is the whole point of the post. Sheesh.

I think you'll find that any site that does not pre-moderate comments will reveal many examples of meanness and stupidity from the commenters.  I think that's just the way people "are." 

[Gazoo]

they're really classic examples of how stupid many of the SFGate commenters are; they're calling Ratto stupid for misspelling "Natinals" when the misspelling is the whole point of the post. Sheesh.

I think you'll find that any site that does not pre-moderate comments will reveal many examples of meanness and stupidity from the commenters.  I think that's just the way people "are." 

Indeed.  The anonymity of the Internet brings out all our worst impulses.

[Tinka Cat]

bad, bad bobbleheads...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/ratto/detail?blogid=64&entry_id=40655

uh, my browser says: "Comments have been removed from this entry."

what was the gist?

dangit, turns out we had server problems at SFGate last night and this AM, which is why some folks cold not access comments, login, etc.

[ggould]

bad, bad bobbleheads...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/ratto/detail?blogid=64&entry_id=40655

uh, my browser says: "Comments have been removed from this entry."

what was the gist?

dangit, turns out we had server problems at SFGate last night and this AM, which is why some folks cold not access comments, login, etc.

thanks, now I see what was up.

[Alicat]

Spelling errors like that really kill me. I know it happens but should NOT when you're printing mass merchandise items. Errors like that should result in shame and heads rolling out the door to the unemployment line. Yeah, I know that's a harsh attitude but dammit Janet!

[mshray]

Not quite sure where else to put this, but the wordsmiths here should get a kick out of it:

The New York Times 50 Most-Looked-Up Words

The actual memo, at the end of the article, is very interesting.

[Lightnin' Rod]

Not quite sure where else to put this, but the wordsmiths here should get a kick out of it:

The New York Times 50 Most-Looked-Up Words

The actual memo, at the end of the article, is very interesting.

"Swine" was number 31?  You really gotta dumb it down if people don't know what swine are.  Though, come to think on it, it is synonymous with "politician(s)", so there could be confusion.

[mshray]

Not quite sure where else to put this, but the wordsmiths here should get a kick out of it:

The New York Times 50 Most-Looked-Up Words

The actual memo, at the end of the article, is very interesting.

"Swine" was number 31?  You really gotta dumb it down if people don't know what swine are.  Though, come to think on it, it is synonymous with "politician(s)", so there could be confusion.

That's why a listing based on raw number of look-up scan be deceiving.  With 2 1/2 times the number of appearances as the next most common word (which not coincidentally was 'pandemic'), it had by far the lowest rate of lookup.

So how many did you not know?  There's only two that I had no clue on: bildungsroman & bonobo.  But if you challenged me to give a precise definition for the word, there's probably another 1/3 of the list that I'd have difficulty with even though I have vague to good idea of what they mean.

[ggould]

http://bit.ly/qWVVY

[Gazoo]

http://bit.ly/qWVVY

This is what happens when we "elitists" are ridiculed and the Sarah Palins of the nation run the show.

[mshray]

http://bit.ly/qWVVY

This is what happens when we "elitists" are ridiculed and the Sarah Palins of the nation run the show.

I liked the one comment on the article:

Dyslexics of the world UNTIE!