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By ALICIA CHANG
Associated Press Writer
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP)
Discovery swooped through the predawn darkness and landed at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert at 5:11 a.m. PDT, concluding the conclusion of the first shuttle re-entry since Columbia's tragic return.
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Ouch; I can forgive, to a certain extent, newspeople saying things like that in excitement, but there's no excuse for leaving a story written like that.
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Where's the unsung copy editor when you need them [sic]?
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Where's the unsung copy editor when you need them [sic]?
Uh, editing the editing?
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I don't think that there are copy editors any more. It seems -- and I'll have to check with my sister-in-law the editor in chief -- that the position has been reduced or eliminated and that many reports are now put into print directly from computer-checked reporters' text.
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many reports are now put into print directly from computer-checked reporters' text. I think our paper must do that; I see things like 'They were write'. SIGH...
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The Sault Star is a fine example of a paper operating without a copy editor - if "fine" is the correct word for such a mishmash of mis-spelled, mis-punctuated text.
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Now, now, political correctness please. It isn't wrong it is merely creative. Or gramatically challenged.
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Attually®, "concluding the conclusion" isn't grammatically incorrect; it isn't even semantically incorrect. It's just poor style.
Edit: Sheesh! A guy can't make a little typo.
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>"conluding[sic] the conclusion" isn't grammatically incorrect
then how about "deluding the delusion"?
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Ahbut--delusions are not animate.
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>>are not animate
Are they not qame?
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Discovery swooped through the predawn darkness and landed at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert at 5:11 a.m. PDT, concluding the conclusion of the first shuttle re-entry since Columbia's tragic return.
I wonder if they were listening to "Begin the Beguine" when they wrote that.
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