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Originally Posted by Hitch
Not to mention, the word simply sounds wonderful. Zeiktoeslag. After all, toeslag just sounds like toe jam that someone forgot to wash, and it gets better from there, right?
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The printing industry has the markup symbol AA, which stands for Author's Alterations.
When you submit a job to a commercial printer, you normally get a proof showing what the job will look like when printed, which you review and make corrections on. Minor corrections aren't an issue. Major corrections get the AA tag, which translates as "We charge extra for aggravation". Depending upon the corrections required, it may mean making all new plates, and will certainly involve disruption to the printer's carefully planned production schedule. They charge through the nose for that, for good reason, so you are advised to carefully proof what you want printed
before you submit the job.
(I worked for a big commercial printer back when, and heard a horror story about an annual report. Client error - after the job was printed a mistake was discovered in the financial tables that were part of the 10K section. Because of the regulations governing such things, they
couldn't just print and insert an errata sheet with the correction. The had to destroy the original print run and reprint from scratch. I was grateful I wasn't the one on the client's staff who missed that in proofreading...
)
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Dennis