As many of you know, I actually get paid to write. But one thing I don’t get paid to due is proofread. That’s why the ad agency hires professionals to nitpick every word on the page, to catch spelling mistakes and points out grammatical errors. Unfortunately, they don’t always do a very good job.
An email I wrote for a very prominent automobile company went out today and I was pretty proud of it. That is, until I forwarded it to a friend of mine. She found some spelling errors. Apparently, fois gras isn’t spelled that way. It’s spelled like this: foie gras. Who knew? I certainly didn’t. I didn’t take French in high school. I took Spanish. And I flunked it. But then again, its not my job to find the the mistakes. It’s the proofreader’s. I mean, they must’ve looked at that copy five seperate times. And they still managed to miss those mistakes.
Needless to say, I made sure the oversight was brought to the attention of the proofreaders, All they could do was apologize and say they would be more fastidious in the future. “Damn right,” I said, and angrily stormed back to my office, sat down at my desk and quickly looked up the word “fastidious.’ Fucking proofers. Why can’t they just say precise?
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