Today's Controversial Decision
I decided not to pay for it; the story's in matchprint already, and it'd be $400.
The error: " your grandmother's bridal bouquet can be easily recreated at your own wedding."
A hyphen is tradition: re-created.
But I think readers will go right to the proper meaning; we seldom use any form of "recreate" as a verb.
What would you have done?
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2 comments:
I'm not sure what you're asking. What would have been $400 - a correction?
In any case, I'd have let it go. No one will misunderstand it.
At matchprint stage, I absolutely would have let it go. But I'd still be mentally flogging myself for having missed it in the first place, even though each of us is human.
-- A fellow copyeditor who's really happy she found this blog!
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