Divorce Duels

[Jolly]

Death to the loser...

https://historycollection.com/oddities-misconceptions-and-facts-about-the-middle-ages-that-made-it-so-delightfully-strange/2/

[Aqua Letifer]

How it started: "We're laying off all our editors and proofreaders."

How it's going:

rocks that weighed up to fight pounds

[Jolly]

I'm assuming that was an autocorrect, and they meant "five" pounds. Even proofreaders make mistakes on correctly spelled words...

[Mik]

Doesn't sound like much fun.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Jolly said in Divorce Duels:

I'm assuming that was an autocorrect, and they meant "five" pounds. Even proofreaders make mistakes on correctly spelled words...

No way they have proofreaders. It's a dead profession, sadly.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Divorce Duels:

@Jolly said in Divorce Duels:

I'm assuming that was an autocorrect, and they meant "five" pounds. Even proofreaders make mistakes on correctly spelled words...

No way they have proofreaders. It's a dead profession, sadly.

I do a lot of proofreading on a daily basis. It's a dead boring profession, sadly.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Divorce Duels:

@Aqua-Letifer said in Divorce Duels:

@Jolly said in Divorce Duels:

I'm assuming that was an autocorrect, and they meant "five" pounds. Even proofreaders make mistakes on correctly spelled words...

No way they have proofreaders. It's a dead profession, sadly.

I do a lot of proofreading on a daily basis. It's a dead boring profession, sadly.

That's because you have to cut out the ravings of that mad Russian, not because the profession is alive and well.

[Axtremus]

@Aqua-Letifer , how much does proofreading (as a job) get paid anyway? How much money are the publishers saving by not paying anyone to proofread anymore?