h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Why are the proofreading marks used to make corrections on a paper so weird looking?

Heh - probably just to confuse normal people so that you have to do expensive training courses to proofread stuff (or have to pay someone to decipher it for you)

There aren't *that* many of them.

http://www.m-w.com/mw/table/proofrea.htm

But it comes from the old paper-and-pen method of writing. And they had to be distinctive.

But nobody bothers much anymore, now that you can do corrections in Word.

Hi Dmitri.

Hi, Anole.*waves*

Thanks everybody.

*looks around*


I 'avernt dun owt yet..

Oh, um...
/say what?

Meaning, I have said nothing!..

Oh.

}Crunchity!{
(Cannot breathe...)
...
Just kidding.
It's typos get me too (alot sometimes).
Hey I know.
We ought to set up an "Anti-typo" club.
I've had this running-gag with EvilClaw about hunting "wild typos" down and chasing afterr them with mallets, blunderbuss, baseball bat, flyswatter et cetera.

That wasn't a typo.. that wuz me talkin' in caracteeer of Billy Caarterr!!...

Oh (* I don't quite know which celebrity that is... an actor, right?*).

It is my rpg character.. but there is a picture of the actor, somewhere.. but he is really american.. I have just made him into a liverpudlian..

Oh.


I see...

*giggles*

He'z a li'le b*gger!

Is a Lilipudder sort of like a liliputian from Gulliver's Travels, except different>?

Meanz he'z frum Liverpool...

Oh. Why do they call it that... are there lots of gray/grey things over there?

Liver... ky.
Liverpool = spot/place in England, right? That's different.

That'srrriight.. 'e izza Scouser frum Liverpool, England..