More reasons why copyediting is a good thing

[missroserose]

Another unedited (in multiple senses) screen grab, from Hotmail this time:



(Of course, this is where someone on my friendslist pops up with "Aha! 'Goat' is actually a technical term in football that you, as the Great Undoctrinated, couldn't hope to know!" But to me, it looks like a funny typo.)

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[sigma7.livejournal.com]

*pops up*

It's not a football-specific technical term, you know, like "down" or "conversion" or "Brett Favre family portrait." It's just the dude who gets blamed for the losing team's failure, most often deservedly so.

That said, any such list without Scott Norwood on it is of questionable insight.

And yes, it still looks wrong. I would've used "pariah," myself.