9 Proofreading Marks for Correcting People on the Internet

Mike Trapp at College Humor has a whole set of new marks we should just be able to slap over someone else's typing whenever someone is wrong on the internet. The misuse of the word "literally" gets under my skin, but the funniest part of the article is where you get to correct someone else's correction. Link


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A couple of mine:

theory and hypothesis

proof and evidence

His "I think that the Sopranos, is the show..." - Commas as breath marks (which was once actually taught!).
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