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Oh yes. It’s one of the great tips for copyediting. (Another is to start at the bottom of the page and go up line by line. You can use a...

When I was recording audiobooks, we often found errors--some of them were pretty egregious (such as "two-car garbage"). I sometimes...

What worse, sometimes, are the people who genuinely think they’re being helpful, who have no idea what it’s like outside the narrow...

It was in the ‘90s I saw a thread with someone asking for horror films that aren’t bloody or gory. Responses included Alien, The Thing...

Finally made out to our pinball museum!

It always makes me very uncomfortable when I don't know much about something but see people who clearly know much less about that thing...

I’ve been dangerously angry at political stuff today, and Hailey Piper is being, once again, good for helping me focus that feeling and...

When it became possible to record music, there were professional musicians strongly opposed to it, because they guessed (more or less...

I recall an anecdote when, upon written poetry becoming a thing in Ancient Greece, one storyteller denounced it as marking the death of...

I don't know which specific poster you're talking about (so many options!) but I figure the answer to the question is "no."

People said it about the written word, centuries before Gutenberg. For whatever that's worth (and I don't think it's worth a lot).

I think it averages an even split for me when running online, because I usually have battlemaps, tokens, and character art prepped for...

It was about the first half, not the second. You're not any worse off being edited by your spouse than being edited by someone who...