Another On-Topic comic

I do a lot of proofreading, so I like this one.

What can I say? The proofreader is right, as always.

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This comic is about proofreading, but it has one goof. The mark to delete the incorrect word is incorrect!

Here’s a not-very-good picture of the delete mark. The line should go through all the text that’s to be deleted. Upper left corner:

Google “proofreader’s delete mark for more bad examples. In case you didn’t notice, most of the other marks in the picture are jokes.

From a webcast on fake news and the like.

Sorry, I can’t supply a link to the whole event.

You noticed the typo, right?

I’ve been wanting to say a word or two about proofreading lately, and here Warped has given me an example of a proofreader’s mark!

That line with the loop on the end means delete. A just plain line through a letter means to make it lowercase. And three lines under something means to capitalize it.

End of proofreading lesson one.

I saw a version of this back in the 1960’s in Readers Digest.

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