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Is copy editing a fundamentally self indulgent profession?

Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Wolfe Tone

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Copy editing- self indulgent or valuable service?
« on: October 11, 2009, 08:57:40 PM »
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Re: Copy editing- self indulgent or valuable service?
« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2009, 09:00:26 PM »
What's copy editing?
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Re: Copy editing- self indulgent or valuable service?
« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2009, 09:02:49 PM »
Corecting the spelling mistakes, format and grammar of something without changing it's content. Used for novels and newspapers and that
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Re: Copy editing- self indulgent or valuable service?
« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2009, 09:03:21 PM »
Wolfe, it will help you in life if you can spell. You do realise that, don't you.

And know where the apostrophe does or doesn't go in 'its'.
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Re: Copy editing- self indulgent or valuable service?
« Reply #4 on: October 11, 2009, 09:08:16 PM »
Depends on it's context wolfie. On this site, it's just pedantic, but in proper pieces of work, definitely essential.
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Re: Copy editing- self indulgent or valuable service?
« Reply #5 on: October 11, 2009, 09:09:38 PM »
Quote from: Adi on October 11, 2009, 09:03:21 PM
Wolfe, it will help you in life if you can spell. You do realise that, don't you.

And know where the apostrophe does or doesn't go in 'its'.

How? And I do know the difference, I just tend not to care in this joint.
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Re: Copy editing- self indulgent or valuable service?
« Reply #6 on: October 11, 2009, 09:09:52 PM »
Is this like a software or a person?
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Re: Copy editing- self indulgent or valuable service?
« Reply #7 on: October 11, 2009, 10:26:03 PM »
Person. How can a computer program be self indulgent?
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Re: Copy editing- self indulgent or valuable service?
« Reply #8 on: October 11, 2009, 10:27:58 PM »
So you're saying that a computer doing it is fine, but a person doing it is self-indulgent? Where does that leave you on the actual need for it to be done?
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Re: Copy editing- self indulgent or valuable service?
« Reply #9 on: October 11, 2009, 10:30:55 PM »
I don't think it needs to be done but a computer is just pointless wheras a human is self indulgent.
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Re: Copy editing- self indulgent or valuable service?
« Reply #10 on: October 11, 2009, 10:36:38 PM »
You don't think it needs to be done? So you'd rather read newspapers, books and magazines full of spelling & grammar errors, would you?
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Re: Copy editing- self indulgent or valuable service?
« Reply #11 on: October 11, 2009, 10:40:10 PM »
Surely the copy editor picks up important mistakes.  Apostrophe's you can more or les's get away with mo'st of the time, but if you you will be start words wrong put places fucked, for example.  And it does happen.

"Big too" does not mean the same as "too big".
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Re: Copy editing- self indulgent or valuable service?
« Reply #12 on: October 11, 2009, 10:44:19 PM »
Quote from: Adi on October 11, 2009, 10:36:38 PM
You don't think it needs to be done? So you'd rather read newspapers, books and magazines full of spelling & grammar errors, would you?

I wouldn't have a problem with it. With a basic spell checker, the meaning changing ones would be eliminated anyway.
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Re: Copy editing- self indulgent or valuable service?
« Reply #13 on: October 11, 2009, 10:50:06 PM »
Quote from: Wolfe Tone on October 11, 2009, 10:44:19 PM
I wouldn't have a problem with it. With a basic spell checker, the meaning changing ones would be eliminated anyway.

Spelling, mostly, but not grammar.
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Re: Copy editing- self indulgent or valuable service?
« Reply #14 on: October 11, 2009, 10:51:55 PM »
Anyway, none of you have pointed out the irony of this thread so I'm disapointed.
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