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And then I fell aslee
February 15, 2018 — LauraDid the editors at yahoo.com suffer from an attack of narcolepsy before they could finish this sentence?
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At least error 1 on yahoo.com
January 22, 2018 — LauraThere’s at least one error on yahoo.com, one of the world’s most visited websites:
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Posted in Uncategorized. Tags: editing, order of words, proofreading, word order, Yahoo!, Yahoo! front page. Leave a Comment »
Here’s a lesson you for
September 16, 2017 — LauraHere’s a lesson for you, courtesy of Yahoo: Make sure your words are in the correct order.
Another lesson: Proofread everything you write. Even the headlines.
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No big deal, right?
September 6, 2017 — LauraNo big deal, right? Just because a professional writer for Yahoo Style has no idea how to form the plural of a name (Hint: It doesn’t include an apostrophe), it’s reason to criticize. It’s just creative spelling!
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Posted in Apostrophes, Plurals, Punctuation, Uncategorized. Tags: apostrophe, editing, plural, proofreading, writing, Yahoo!, Yahoo! Style. Leave a Comment »
Trump’d up charges
July 23, 2017 — LauraAre charges that Yahoo! News editors are careless just trumped up charges?
Maybe it’s only a typo and the editor really meant trumped. Or Trump’s.
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Posted in Uncategorized. Tags: editing, proofreading, typo, writing, Yahoo!, Yahoo! News. Leave a Comment »
A good time to stop
June 18, 2017 — LauraYahoo! News makes a good case for stopping a search:
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Are you being series?
May 18, 2017 — LauraIs the writer for Yahoo! Style being serious? Did she really think this paragraph was ready for the big time?
Didn’t she notice that the title of the book is “Debutante Divorcée”? How are we supposed to interpret “big hair sprayed hair”? I’ll guess it’s supposed to be “big hair, sprayed hair.” Or maybe “big hairsprayed hair.” But I have no firsthand (Note: It’s one word) knowledge of that.
I also have no firsthand knowledge of the writer’s reasoning for using need instead of the correct needs. Or for using both but and yet together. Is she being serious?
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Not even trying
February 27, 2017 — LauraThere are times when I read something on Yahoo! Style and think, the writer isn’t even trying to be accurate. This is one of those times:
The writer didn’t bother to do a little research into Lisa Rinna’s name. She couldn’t be bothered to find out the name of Ms. Rinna’s husband. Her husband is not Mark Hamlin; he’s Harry Hamlin. She’s just not tryin’.
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Posted in Uncategorized. Tags: Dora Fung, editing, factual errors, Harry Hamlin, Lisa Rinna, misspelled celebrities, misspelling, proofreading, Yahoo!, Yahoo! Style. Leave a Comment »
Because killing himself before is nearly impossible
February 26, 2017 — LauraIn an era of alternative facts, the editors at yahoo.com want to be sure that there’s no mistaking the sequence of events in Daryl Easton’s demise. First, he killed himself, then he was found dead:
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Missed Elliott
January 28, 2017 — LauraYahoo! Style totally missed the mark on its home page with this spelling of Missy Elliott:
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