Proofreading, and the ... er, necessity ... thereof

[edschweppe]

My last post was pretty cynical; this is just plain amusing. Courtesy of Jerry Weinberg's Weinberg on Writing blog, a YouTube rant on "The Impotence of Proofreading" [1]:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjhOBiSk8Gg

The audio track for this is hilarious but definitely NSFW. (The visuals are perfectly clean, so you'd be reasonably safe using headphones. But do not have the speakers on.)

[1] No, that title is not a typographical error. At least, it's not my error ...

Comments

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Ohkayyy!

[johnpalmer.livejournal.com]

I actually read "impotence" as intentional, meaning that proofreading will fail to accomplish what it is supposed to do.