because BigMan told me to

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1/13/2014 10:40:00 AM

what do you edit?

1/13/2014 10:41:19 AM

I can't wait!

1/13/2014 10:41:29 AM

[Edited on January 13, 2014 at 10:42 AM. Reason : That was pretty weird, emce. -Skwinkle]

1/13/2014 10:41:58 AM

tell us about what you do first, as an introduction

1/13/2014 10:44:45 AM

It can be pretty literally any subject matter. College lectures (a lot of stuff for open universities), business meetings, commercials, TV shows or movies, advertisements, interviews ...

I'm given a draft of a text that was generated by a computer that listened to a video or audio recording. If it's pretty clean I just edit it. If it sucks I have to make it make sense and then edit it.

Recent topics include:
the mistake of not eating enough fiber
the US Coast Guard
how to implement a PR plan
parallel concordancers
ancient Chinese dynasties
a woman who was murdered by her husband

[Edited on January 13, 2014 at 10:53 AM. Reason : and a restaurant that makes charcoal out of shrimp to then cook shrimp on]

1/13/2014 10:50:20 AM

do they make charcoal out of the shrimp that they were going to end up throwing away? or just take perfectly good shrimp and leaving it cooking for 3 days?

1/13/2014 10:54:44 AM

They said shrimp bodies. I assume they used the shells of ones they had previously served, but I'm not actually sure.

1/13/2014 10:56:58 AM

no part of the buffalo shrimp goes to waste

1/13/2014 11:53:58 AM

no shrimp left behind

1/13/2014 11:56:44 AM

shoulda made shrimp soup with that shit

1/13/2014 12:37:19 PM

So many college professors ramble a lot. When you are looking at a straight transcript of what they said, you realize how many of their sentences have very little content that actually makes sense.

1/13/2014 1:46:01 PM

I'm amazed at the number of professionals who can't write well. I translate and edit people's work for publication, and I get sent final copy that has entire paragraphs of non-sentences... usually, verbs are what get left out. Maybe the authors don't care enough to re-read what they wrote.

1/13/2014 2:04:03 PM

Apparently Cameron Diaz knows a lot about poop.

1/17/2014 8:29:33 AM

lolwut

1/17/2014 8:31:22 AM

Well that's weird

1/17/2014 9:45:36 AM

Apparently women get more drunk from the same amount of alcohol right before their period.

1/18/2014 9:29:54 AM

^ that actually explains a lot.

1/18/2014 9:44:06 AM

1/18/2014 9:44:50 AM

I am learning so much!

1/18/2014 1:44:16 PM

apparently IUDs used to look like creepy parasite things

1/23/2014 12:02:54 PM

thought the thread title was "I will post here when I eat something weird" and I thought that might be kinda interesting...

1/23/2014 2:04:13 PM

crazy Australians and their toothpastesque coffee

2/3/2014 8:48:53 AM

D:

2/3/2014 8:49:14 AM

lol this is awesome to me

2/3/2014 8:55:42 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck_for_Forest
the US needs more organizations like this

2/28/2014 3:24:55 PM

apparently, calves have like 8 hours to get enough IgG via colostrum before their gut can't adequately incorporate it anymore, and then a lot die because they have a crappy immune system. so farmers should buy packets of dried colostrum to have around in case there are feeding problems. but where does babbypowdered bovine colostrum come from?

2/28/2014 3:44:29 PM

you can buy it at feed stores and farm supply type places

2/28/2014 4:11:15 PM

^you know that isn't what i meant. i posted that because i was editing something for a store that sells the product.


well Skwink, you might have some more interesting work coming your way. A big canadian cable porn company is coming under fire for not having closed captions (as well as there not being enough Canadian content. lumberjack porn whaaaat). So there's apparently gonna some job opportunities coming up. better brush up on your onomatopoeia, just in case.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/03/05/your-porn-is-not-canadian-enough-crtc-warns-erotica-channels/

3/6/2014 10:28:53 PM

omg that would be amazing

I have never seen any nudity in anything aside from some diagrams of a penis and a vag last week. I wonder if they have a policy on adult content.

3/6/2014 10:32:12 PM

You'd have to do the subtitles in French to. How do you say "wet ball-slappy sounds" a francais?

3/6/2014 10:35:58 PM

This or something similar was up a couple days ago, except it was half an hour long. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl5P06OhL4A

Kind of wish I'd taken it.

That car's orange.
Nothing rhymes with orange.
Let's go to church!

4/2/2014 9:18:59 AM