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Re: Jade Knight's thread of Proofreadingishnesses
« Reply #75 on: February 16, 2006, 08:01:01 PM »
Firewall review:

"who's family" should be "whose family"

( A Knight’s Tale,A Beautiful Mind,

should be

(A Knight’s Tale, A Beautiful Mind,
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Re: Jade Knight's thread of Proofreadingishnesses
« Reply #76 on: April 25, 2006, 10:16:48 PM »
I stopped by again.  Here's the damage today:
"Don't fence me in Roy" should be "Don't fence me in, Roy"
"coumn" should be "column"
And the in "uhm" should probably be capitalized.
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Re: Jade Knight's thread of Proofreadingishnesses
« Reply #77 on: May 02, 2006, 08:10:37 PM »
Weekly report:
"Or is it a moving and important tribute to American heroes."  (This should end in a question mark)
"Great now we have start over." (there should be a comma after "great")
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Re: Jade Knight's thread of Proofreadingishnesses
« Reply #78 on: May 09, 2006, 03:02:47 PM »
"Or is it a moving and important tribute to American heroes."

This deserves (deserved) a question mark.
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Re: Jade Knight's thread of Proofreadingishnesses
« Reply #79 on: May 22, 2006, 08:31:19 PM »
Clean this week, though I did touch up the Nerdery article.
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Re: Jade Knight's thread of Proofreadingishnesses
« Reply #80 on: July 07, 2006, 10:36:09 PM »
In the Superman Returns review
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He is joined by his moll, Kitty (Parker Posey, of Waiting For Guffman) who icily fills the roles of both Miss Tessmacher and Otis.

The Brothers said in the thread that they did not use the word "icily" in their review. I assume it's supposed to be "easily."
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Re: Jade Knight's thread of Proofreadingishnesses
« Reply #81 on: July 08, 2006, 01:33:23 AM »
Found it and fixed it.  I changed the typo "icely fills the role" to "icily fills the role"  Given the Gibb's comment it probably should have been "nicely"  fixed.
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Re: Jade Knight's thread of Proofreadingishnesses
« Reply #82 on: July 09, 2006, 01:35:35 AM »
Okay, THAT'S a typo I can understand!
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Re: Jade Knight's thread of Proofreadingishnesses
« Reply #83 on: August 30, 2006, 04:42:48 PM »
In the SoaP review, "Sufficeth to say" should be "Suffice it to say."
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Re: Jade Knight's thread of Proofreadingishnesses
« Reply #84 on: October 02, 2006, 08:27:40 PM »
FYI:  My workload at school is insane right now.  Expect me to almost never show up on the site/boards at all until at least Christmas-time.  Hopefully next semester will be nicer.

(I'm currently taking 20 credits/8 classes, 3 of which [9 credits] are 400/500-level.  And I've got 1½ independent study classes in addition to this, to boot).

The front page looks good except the "--" really bothers me.  Someone mind converting this to "—"?
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Re: Jade Knight's thread of Proofreadingishnesses
« Reply #85 on: October 03, 2006, 12:58:59 PM »
Yikes. Don't hurt yourself!

Good luck.  :)
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Re: Jade Knight's thread of Proofreadingishnesses
« Reply #86 on: November 02, 2006, 01:57:05 AM »
Thanks.  I'm still not sure I'll make it through this, but I'm not a lost cause quite yet.

Anyway, I think there should be a comma between "resolution but".
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Re: Jade Knight's thread of Proofreadingishnesses
« Reply #87 on: January 24, 2007, 12:11:07 AM »
So, expect to start seeing more of me.

Today's report:

"This book by Wizards helps you try something new with a city setting...sort of."  Should there be any spacing in "setting...sort of"?  I'm inclined to think so ("setting… sort of"), but I don't know the book on that one.

"Walk a thousand miles through the wilderness without food, shoes, and a GPS and see how well you look when you're finished."  Comma after GPS.

"First-time novelist Diane Setterfield proves that the Gothic romance genre is alive and well."  This is technically correct, but having "Gothic" capitalized and "romance" not really bugs me.  I'd prefer "Gothic Romance" or "gothic romance" (the latter is also technically correct).

I'll have to get used to the new forums and all now…
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Re: Jade Knight's thread of Proofreadingishnesses
« Reply #88 on: January 26, 2007, 05:26:23 AM »
"Flee the galaxy ravening hordes of the Gbaba and take refuge on a distant star. Find the enemy fleet with your recon droids, sail to him under all the canvas you can hoist and give him a taste of your cannon. Off Armageddon Reef, the new epic novel by David Weber."

This should either say "it" or "them", not "him".
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Re: Jade Knight's thread of Proofreadingishnesses
« Reply #89 on: February 02, 2007, 10:26:03 AM »
"Assassins, nobility, swords, crossbows, and demons--the typical heroic fantasy"

Double-hyphening for an em dash is so ASCII.  Can we fix this to a real em dash (—)?
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