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Antoine Auffret
@antoineauffret · Project Manager, Nurun
Careful, on your "Our work" page, there's a mistake in the first sentence of the "after edit" document :)
Great product though, would love to submit a piece to your editors!
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T. Heinrichsdobler
@dertyp · Owner, DemiCloud
@antoineauffret there's more than one mistake, actually. First, the words "have been" are repeated. Secondly, the comma between "130 billion, times" isn't correct, either (it should probably be placed after "times"). There are a few errors scattered throughout the "After editing" document, for example on page 3 the penultimate paragraph just ends without its last sentence being complete.
I'm all for charging good money for a good service, especially one that requires an extensive amount of training and experience, but their example doesn't seem to fit their claims.
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Jelzoo
@jelzoo
@dertyp @antoineauffret I had a quick glance over the example, as it's something I could be interested in. However, not at that price, and not based on their example, which should have had several people going over it a hundred times to make sure it's correct.
I picked up more than a handful of errors.
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Jon Xavier
@jxav · Writer, WePay
@antoineauffret It has quite a few minor issues still, but I think the idea they're getting across is that this is more of a structural edit than a proofread. What they did was take an article from complete shit to semi-decent rather than take it from complete shit to grammatically perfect shit. At that price you'd hope for both, but if they're working more with editors than copy editors it's not that surprising.
A good structural edit is tougher to do and a lot harder to find than someone who will just correct spelling and grammar, but success depends more on rapport with your editor. I'm not sure I'd trust it to a service, particularly at that rate. This thing would probably benefit from some form of introductory pricing to get over that hump. The people who know enough to recognize the value of this service also probably care enough not to trust their writing to just anyone.
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Antoine Auffret
@antoineauffret · Project Manager, Nurun
@jxav I agree with you, but if I send a complete shit but grammatically correct article, I'd expect the "after edit" piece to be at least as good in terms of grammar. IMO the grammar "regression" is not acceptable, especially for that price. Besides, the overall give the impression that the work has been done quick and dirty, regardless of the relevance of the structural improvements...
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