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22nd Jan 2018, 4:32 pm | #21 |
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Re: RadCom
In days of old the printer/typesetter was the last line of defence against spelling errors - my Dad was a printer.
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22nd Jan 2018, 6:31 pm | #22 |
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22nd Jan 2018, 7:24 pm | #23 |
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Re: RadCom
But only when the sound is e
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22nd Jan 2018, 9:31 pm | #24 |
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Re: RadCom
" "i before e except after c" should apply. "
And never start a sentence with either of and, but or so. But there are exceptions. So there we have it. Particulary annoying is the overuse of "so" at the start of conversations or responses by politicians, "yoofs" etc. All well off topic of course, I sense a rule with knuckles co-ordinates loaded is about to descend. |
23rd Jan 2018, 12:01 pm | #25 |
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Re: RadCom
Typesetting companies and larger printing companies used to employ professional readers. In the letterpress days, the printer would set the supplied copy. As lithography displaced letterpress this handed more control to the layout artist, often operating in a separate design studio, who provided 'camera-ready artwork' and so printers had less need for this facility as responsibility for typesetting was largely removed from them. The typesetting house would read the text for errors before processing the final bromides. Then after the line artwork was assembled the studio or agency would go through a second reading (the client would usually have sight at this point as a further check) before it went to the printer as corrections at film and plate stage were very expensive to make. (Film assembly was a specialised craft in its own right and frequently done at another company separate from the printer. With the advent of the computer, the film assembler, like the typesetter, is a long-extinct species.)
Now that printers can make plates directly from PDFs, these checks along the way have disappeared. Of course this has made printing much cheaper. However, the old processes dictated a certain pace with several 'pairs of eyes' as the job progessed. These days the emphasis is very much about speed of turnaround. Today, printing is very much an ultra competitive on demand 'this minute' industry. Incidentally, the rule at the typesetting house was usually that text was set exactly as the copy supplied including the mistakes. This might seem odd or even bolshy but once the typesetter made decisions about spelling this could open the gate to criticism for ignoring punctuation errors or grammar, much of which is a matter of opinion and style. However, some typesetting houses would supply an alternative bromide if they spotted an obvious error. The reader(s) - sometimes there would be two who would read to each other comparing original copy with the artwork - homed in on the body text and sometimes there was a danger of missing the glaring mistake in the headline that the finished artist had hastily (they were always under time pressure) run up in Letraset. For some reason, errors were easier to spot in the body text and headlines were in danger of being taken as read. This may be what has happened in this instance - it's a simple typo that's slipped through. We all make them, and the person who has never made a mistake is the person that has never done anything. Finally, I apologise for any mistakes I've made in the above - I knocked this out at speed and need to get back to work! |
23rd Jan 2018, 2:02 pm | #26 |
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Re: RadCom
At least not as bad as this one, to be seen on our local buses.
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23rd Jan 2018, 2:51 pm | #27 |
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Re: RadCom
Breaks was an alternative spelling often found on drawings of old railway rolling stock. It seems to have fallen into disuse though.
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23rd Jan 2018, 3:06 pm | #28 |
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Re: RadCom
I think we've had enough discussion of a simple (though prominent) spelling error. Time to move on.
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