Proofreadings is important!

(on the Capital Crescent Trail, in Washington D.C.,)

Proofreading is important, part 0.695

Cannondale claims to make a bicycle with a frame weighing 0.695 grams, which is about the weight of one grain of (uncooked) rice:

(screenshot from cannondale.com)

Proofreading Is Important, Part XHYXHYXHYX

An article on Andras Schiff's Bach Project appears in today's Washington Post, starting on the front page of the Arts section; here is the headline on the jump page:

Proofreading is important, part DCCLXXV.

Looks like a hot day today in Baltimore.

Proofreading is important, part 3.

Apropos of this morning's post on the existence of an intelligent proofreader, as well as our earlier posts on the importance of proofreading in baseball and near school buses, it now appears that former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney may be running for President of Amercia [sic].

Could the Washington Natinals [sic] be Amercia's [sic] team?

Proofreading is important, part 2.

Department of proofreading: The Washington Post reports today that the conviction of a Virginia man for driving past a stopped school bus was overturned on appeal, because of a missing preposition in Virginia law, which had been amended in 1970 to criminalize failure to stop a school bus – not failure to stop at a school bus.

A proof of the existence of an intelligent proofreader?

Just one sentence was deleted, the last sentence of an appendix-of-sorts at the end of a brief (three-page) article. And that deletion appeared to me to be a proof of the existence of an intelligent (if not loving) proofreader.

A few years ago I was invited to contribute a brief introductory article to a special issue of a magazine. So I did. 

The professional society that publishes this magazine (and many journals) requests (insists) that every author supply a brief professional biographical sketch (the usual stuff: training, appointments, research interests), to appear at the end of the article. So I did. 

Only, when I got the page proofs back (in PDF form), I found that the final sentence of my biographical sketch was gone! 

I didn't mind. I certainly wasn't offended, nor did I think that this editing reflected poorly on the journal or its publisher. Indeed, I took the deletion of the final sentence of my draft biosketch to be a sign of the existence of an intelligent proofreader. As in "hey, someone is really reading this stuff!"

And that sentence? It was:

A son of the Garden State, Dr. Pekar is especially grateful to have worked with so many international scientists, who tend to lack the irrational prejudice against New Jersey so prevalent among his own countrymen.

Proofreading is important!

The Washington Natinals (sic) baseball team took to the field...