more editorial grumbling ...
Jul. 24th, 2006 05:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
molly_oI'm reviewing a manuscript that has already been marked up by other editors. It's an analysis of the most recent Quadrennial Defense Review -- so it's about military-related things -- and there's a sentence about how DoD's "adoption of the term 'long ear' represents an improvement over" blah blah blah.
Which, if you paid any attention to military-related rhetoric at all (and, for values of you = people likely to be reading this LJ, you probably don't -- I mean, I wouldn't if it weren't MY JOB to edit things like this), would make you giggle, because he doesn't mean "long ear," he means "long war." Heh. That's a funny typo.
On the other hand, if you were one of the editors who marked this up before I got to it, you might circle the phrase "long ear" and write in the margin, "never heard of this before ..." or "me neither." Because, despite it also being THEIR JOB to edit things like this, they apparently don't pay any more attention to military-related rhetoric than you do.
Which, if you paid any attention to military-related rhetoric at all (and, for values of you = people likely to be reading this LJ, you probably don't -- I mean, I wouldn't if it weren't MY JOB to edit things like this), would make you giggle, because he doesn't mean "long ear," he means "long war." Heh. That's a funny typo.
On the other hand, if you were one of the editors who marked this up before I got to it, you might circle the phrase "long ear" and write in the margin, "never heard of this before ..." or "me neither." Because, despite it also being THEIR JOB to edit things like this, they apparently don't pay any more attention to military-related rhetoric than you do.