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sassypotatoe1 · 6 months

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LMAO my editor just got permission from head office to completely ban the sub-editors (proofreaders) from proofing or editing our English copy because they keep fucking up our copy. Like if you don't have an acute and strong understanding of the language you're editing for don't become a sub?? (hehe sub) Like the last straw was them changing "Amid the dissolution of the board of directors, appointment of an interim manager, and alleged wild parties leading to property damage, the Insert Name Here service center has closed indefinitely" to "with the dissolution of the board of directors, an interim manager alleged that wild parties led to property damage" and then the next paragraph, which they just fucking wrote in, which is not the job of a sub-editor, was "there were allegations of wild parties that were dangerous and disruptive" like babes, not only did you completely change the meaning of the intro, like, completely, like from "there was a new manager because the board was dissolved and there are allegations of parties" to "the new manager said so" which is completely different, the new manager said fuck-all, you also fucking added a completely redundant repetition in the nut graf like??? (hehe nut) And it's not like I didn't explain in the nut graf what these disruptions and dangers were, I laid them out in detail, the subs just felt the need to reiterate for a second time that there were wild parties.

It's also far from the first time there is A List of times they changed the meaning of our English copy completely and didn't even fix the grammar, or even made it worse. How they're still employed as subs is beyond me completely because they are decidedly horrible at it.

#A nut graf is a “nutshell paragraph”#Typically the second paragraph in a news article that summarizes the content of the article in a nutshell #It has been written as nut graf and nut graph #I don't know how we got to f but it's the preferred spelling of the textbooks I used in uni as well as the two retired national journalists #With decades of experience in the field #So I use the f #But you'll probably more frequently see the ph in the field #Sub editors are journalism speak for proofreaders #The editor #Or editor-in-chief #Is the boss of a newsroom who has final say over how copy (an article) is written and what copy goes in the paper #News editors are directly below them and typically responsible for fact checking copy and comparing it to the style guide #Sub editors are below news editors and they're the language and grammar editors that solely focus on proofreading #They can sometimes do fact checking but it's typically just the spelling of names the accuracy of dates that kind of stuff #Subs do not write #Ever #They correct the spelling and grammar of an article and that's it

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