Ed Schweppe (edschweppe) wrote,
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Proofreading, and the ... er, necessity ... thereof

My last post was pretty cynical; this is just plain amusing. Courtesy of Jerry Weinberg's Weinberg on Writing blog, a YouTube rant on "The Impotence of Proofreading" [1]:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjhOBiSk8Gg

The audio track for this is hilarious but definitely NSFW. (The visuals are perfectly clean, so you'd be reasonably safe using headphones. But do not have the speakers on.)

[1] No, that title is not a typographical error. At least, it's not my error ...
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