When You Fail Proofreading 101…..

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Proofreading must be a terrible job. I understand, too: you look at things for hours on end, and eventually every letter and every word begins to look the same. But this isn’t War and Peace, this is a product package. I don’t know if you’ve seen this, but there’s a thing that occasionally floats around on Facebook that says the human brain is capable of “un-scrambling” letters in words to decipher the message, no matter how many typos are in the message. I suppose it’s true: I know I’ve read a number of things as one thing when it said another just because I was “skimming” instead of paying attention to each word. When I was in the store the other day this didn’t exactly jump off the counter yelling, “Look at me! I have a typo!!!” It was just sitting there on the shelf with the rest of the items. I don’t know what caused me to look, but I saw this product. It’s an inflatable serving table. The package says that you can fill it with ice and keep your food cool on ever the hottest days. Huh???? EVER the hottest days? That’s what it says. If you look at the picture you may not have even noticed that it didn’t say EVEN the hottest days. Fear not. When you fail proofreading 101 the US government will give you a job as a proofreader. Heck, maybe even supervisor!!! Talking Heads singing about a book that hopefully didn’t have typos in it: