/lit/ - Literature

As a proofreader/editor...?
inb4 fucking durr

>>640437
Small sample of the infuriating stuff I have to hear almost every day from the people I live with:
"Per batim" (That's an attempt at "verbatim".)
"Digilent" (No.)
"Drug attic" (A-D-D-I-C-T, goddammit.)

>>640444

>"Drug attic"

This is an issue of enunciation, not grammar.

Me too, OP.

You know what has been driving me up a fucking wall? It seems President Bush brainwashed the entire nation into saying "nuke-you-lurr."

I heard one of my professors say it a few weeks ago and instantly wanted to crush his skull.

>>640444
Good thing you don't live in the South of the United States. You would probably lose your god-damn mind down here.

"Hey, where you put that beer at?"
"I ain't know, just git another un"

>>640456
You are correct. However, their writing is far worse. I don't have a sample lying around here to transcribe from, but I'm sure you are able to use your imagination.

>>640463
I feel like I'm losing my mind right now...

>>640463

Ugh! Where you/where it at is like nails on a chalkboard to me.

>>640462
Tack that on to another of his administration's failures.

You know what else drives me nuts?

Nigger talk.

Shit is way worse than redneck speak.

>>640469
>>640463
>>640462
>"Lemme AXE you sumpin'"
Do anything for you?

>>640473
>>640473

'EY MAN, WHERE BE THA BAFROOM?!

Emphasis on caps because they can't speak at a reasonable volume.

>>640473
I hear that in and out, every single day at my university, and yet I haven't grown accustomed to it like I did with ain't.
God, I want to strangle the originator of that term.

OP here.
>>640442
Honestly/embarrassingly, I don't have any tangible qualifications (aside from my high school diploma) to bring to any interview table. I'm currently enrolled in college, but that means nothing to many employers out there.

I'm not claiming to have a comprehensive and well-learned knowledge of the English language. I just grew up in a home with an English teacher, read a lot of books, and paid attention in school.

Who's going to hire me as an editor or proofreader?

>>640479
Becoming an editor of a local/college newspaper might be a good start.
Fuck if I know though, not much to do for that without an English degree or something.

OP here.
>>640485
That sounds like a decent suggestion. I wonder if I can be paid for that...

I have lost two opportunities to have sex because of my Grammar Nazi tendencies (I capitalize Grammar Nazi because I am a hardcore one). Apparently women don't want to have sex when you correct their grammar.

>>640494
I supposed that you are doomed to have to seek out grammatically correct people.

I'm sorry.

>>640496
>>640494
GRAMMATICALLY CORRECT PUSSY

HHHNNNGGGHHH OH YEAH

>>640497
Grammatically correct pussy is the best kind of pussy!

>>640501
Samefag here. I forgot to add: "It means she has a brain to go with her looks!".

>>640496
>I supposed that you are

>>640506

Whoops, I am a little fuzzy now because of night-time meds.
Please forgive my. . . whatever thing you call problem caused

>>640508
>dat ellipsis with no end punctuation
Those night-time meds must be pretty strong.

>>640518
Hard to type correctly through the light visual hallucinations.

I'm going to sleep now, praying to not have nightmares of a red neck poetry reading.

I'm with you Original Poster. I'm always correcting people's mistakes and boy do they not like it.