The difference would then be "professional proofreaders" on one side and amateur proofreaders on the other. What is your point ?
Because mine would be that in this issue, it seems amateurs are often better at proofreading than professionals. The real question is why ...
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Originally Posted by John the Miner
Oh, mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
I thought we were talking about "proofreaders", those people who read words and get paid for finding mistakes in them, not those people who read words, find mistakes in them and call themselves "proofreaders".
But then, after being in this trade since 1957, what do I know?
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