Yahoo is apparently spending too much time on exclamation-point maintenance and not enough on copy editing. "Caption goes here" is embarrassing enough, but the profanity is particularly uncalled-for. If you must use dummy type, make it innocuous. (By the way, it's "damn it" or "dammit." "Damnit" is neither here nor there.)
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
It's the Dummy Type, Dummy
Yahoo is apparently spending too much time on exclamation-point maintenance and not enough on copy editing. "Caption goes here" is embarrassing enough, but the profanity is particularly uncalled-for. If you must use dummy type, make it innocuous. (By the way, it's "damn it" or "dammit." "Damnit" is neither here nor there.)
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Whenever I see it written that way, I pronounce it "damn nit" in my head.
This is why you either put the dummy text in all caps or make it a continuous line of two alternating letters.
Blog comment goes here dammit. (lolz)
A friend of mine, working at Glamour, once sent to press a page w/ a gutter credit that said,
"fashion credits go here, come on people, I don't want to wait until 2 in the morning for 5-point type on the page."
She didn't get fired, but it was a close thing, and she had a BIG meeting w/ the EIC.
I told her, "hey, at least you didn't swear!"
Dummy headings and dummy copy didn't happen in hot metal days
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