This is the text of a porn pop-up I just got.
I have a theory that the more people are involved in a business, the more likely obvious mistakes (cockups, [cough]) are to be missed. Possibly because everyone expects everyone else to have checked already.
I once worked for a newspaper which accidentally trivialised a story by publishing it with the headline "Three Man Beated". Dozens of journalists, half a dozen sub-editors, one editor, two proof-readers and 25 or so in the print room - and if any of them spotted it, the must have assumed someone else would fix it.
Either that, or no one cared. Which I can sympathise with. In the book of Kapitano, apathy is a lesser sin than incompetence.
you put 'the' instead of 'they' for "They must have assumed someone else would fix it."
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I'm a sinner, being very incompetent, but not so apathetic.
Ah, I don't claim to be highly competent. I just don't treat corrections as personal attacks.
ReplyDeleteOn this occasion...I'm going to leave the error, as a reminder to myself of, er, something.
Captcha: "Vembag" - which would be good if I knew what a Vem was.