Tjos weel keep on turnin'

[sigma7]

My new favorite phrase? "Tjos weel." It is not:

--Swedish for "steering wheel"
--cheese
--the new Danish prime minister

...but, rather, what occurs when you mean to type "this week" and your right hand is misplaced on the keyboard. And when you have lousy (no?) copy editors.

And it's happened before.

All hail Tjos Weel.

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At least you have thumbs

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

See if you can find what's wrong in this headline:

"Local reservist deployed to Irak"

Guess which publication it was printed in. In Helvetica bold condensed 36. Sweet love of God.

Re: At least you have thumbs

[elfy85.livejournal.com]

That's abysmal. I work on a student newspaper - if anything like those got through our copy-editors would get a total bollocking. And they're not even professionals.

Web publishing does seem to get less copy-edited though - our rival publication's website copy is always full of spelling errors, the printed version rarely is.

Re: At least you have thumbs

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

I took a semester (of around 12) off from our student newspaper while my roommate was the editor-in-chief. Drove to Ohio. Got home one morning at 4 and he was still awake, still dealing with the fallout after the paper used the phrase "colored people" in a headline. That, I think, is the worst thing that ever happened at any of my publications.

We had a great conversation, though.

Him: "You...aren't writing for the paper any more are you?"
Me: "No."
Him: "Where you been?"
Me: "Ohio."
Him: "Since...."
Me: "Last week."

Things got better from that point.