Proofreader wanted


Has anyone else noticed the erosion of literacy in today's magazines?
Two recent examples:
1. The January Sound&Vision is reviewing a new $8000 integrated from Yamaha.
The first sentence asks: "Are you drooling over those massive UV meters?"
(Don't they mean VU meters?)
2. Another review (can't remember the source) describes some speakers as
"immanently listenable". I think they meant "eminently listenable".
Cowabunga!
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As to #1) No, they mean "UV" meters, since the new Yamaha has a response "from DC to (ultraviolet) light"!

As to #2) It must be great to be a reviewer, since apparently you can upload your write up during happy hour!
Perhaps the proofreader was a spellcheck program. "Immanent" is actually a word, as are "imminent" and "eminent" of course. See eminent/imminent/immanent.

Sadly, both errors pale in comparison to the erosion of literacy that is commonly seen these days in emails and internet posts. I suspect that over-reliance on spellcheckers is to blame in some cases, but only in a minority of them.

Regards,
-- Al
Don't get me started on the editing failures in the Hartford Courant, our local daily newspaper, which has more misspellings and grammatical errors that you can count on your fingers and toes in each edition. It appears that their money woes are so severe, they have dispensed with editors altogether.
Agreed. As in other measures, grammar in this society has reached an all-time low. No matter the resource level at my (very large and well-respected regional) company, basic acumen in the English language remains more or less nonexistent.

Personally, I find plagiarism (one symptom of the outright dishonesty in this industry as a whole) a far more egregious sin. Multiple episodes on this site, where the general forum had no issue with it, caused my participation and overall faith to plummet to almost nothing.
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