Intrigue Graphics – Design and Print (and Cool Apple Mac Stuff)

Proofreading Pet Peeves

While doing my proofreading duties, I often see patterns regarding mistakes people make in the layout. Like most things, when something is done in error once, there is a good chance it may get repeated another time. People are people and mistakes are to be expected. I see this all the time in copy we receive from our clients and customers.

None of that bothers me. What I do find irksome is when I check a job and see that people repeat the same bad habits they learned in English class years before and have no idea that there is a problem. That might be simple spelling errors or an incorrect usage of a word, or lousy grammar. While I’m certainly no expert on the English language, and make a bunch of errors myself, I can say that I worked hard in my English classes. My efforts help Intrigue quite a bit today as there are errors aplenty in copy and texts.