This is practically perfect. It’s the first sentence in an article on Yahoo! Shine and it only has three mistakes! There’s only one misspelled name (it should be Farrah Fawcett), there’s only one punctuation mistake (that comma should be an em dash), and only one incorrect word:
I don’t know anyone who covets beauty icons, do you? They might envy icons or wish to emulate or copy icons — but have a desire to own a beauty icon? Not so much.
February 23, 2013 at 12:24 pm
With accurate name spelling, proper punctuation, and correct word choice, that sentence would still be a conceptual embarrassment.
February 23, 2013 at 6:39 pm
Eric, you are correct. But dealing with the conceptual embarrassment is beyond the scope of Terribly Write. I can’t handle more than just saying “it sucks.”
February 23, 2013 at 9:47 pm
It’s a full-time job just identifying the errors, I’m sure. Imagine if Yahoo! understood that concept.
February 24, 2013 at 10:45 am
I wish it were someone’s full-time job at Yahoo!. I spend very little time looking for errors — most days I don’t have to go past yahoo.com to find enough for a day’s worth of blog posts. Sad.