The Importance of Copy Editing

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I got my copy of Queensryche's Operation: Mindcrime II CD today. As I was reading the liner notes, I notice this funny thing:

Photcreds: Too come Too come Too come Too come Too come Too come Too come Too come Too come vToo come Too come Too come Too come Too come Too come

The "v" in there is actually in the credits. Although anyone who's used a word processor knows what happened:

  • They blocked out where the photo credits would go in the liner notes
  • They misspelled "to" in "to come"
  • They copy/pasted it over and over again to use the right amount of room, accidentally not hitting CTRL on one of the pastes, leaving a "V" in there from the malformed CTRL-V
  • They never followed up and put the photo-credits in.

Oops.

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Now for the really scary part... just imagine all the places they did that in the code too. ;)

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