Tuesday, July 12, 2011

I Get Knocked Down...

You ever have those work-related dreams whe there's some important meeting you should be at but you're not or some project that's due that you've forgot about entirely or you're trying to cover your ass for an unspecified transgression to a faceless boss whose voice is like that of the adult characters in Peanuts? No? Liar.

I thought I'd share the result of one of these dreams. Even if it means publicly admitting I'm not perfect. I had to send the following e-mail to a production editor:



Dear __________,


I had one of those work nightmares last night
(I'm sure you know the ones), and I dreamed that I had the wrong spelling of something on my style sheet. And it's true. I did. Please change "Chumbawumba" to "Chumbawamba." My apologies. I remember highlighting it to go back and fix and I thought I did.

Love,
Your Copyeditor
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3 comments:

  1. Dreaming about the right way to spell Chumbawamba - a sure sign you're a copyeditor. I did this a few months ago about the proper capitalization for the second B in BlackBerry.

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  2. Ha! And of course you know the plural is BlackBerrys, no matter how much we might wish otherwise?

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Would you be so kind as to also tell me what your Word Verification word is when you comment? Creating a funny definition for it is a bonus. Love, Your Copyeditor.

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