the.com/proofreader
The last human who sees your work before the internet judges it forever.
means Someone who reads a finished text closely to catch errors in spelling, grammar, and fact before it's published.
from A straightforward compound: 'proof' in the printing sense — the trial copy of a page struck off for checking before the full run — plus 'reader,' the person who reads it. 'Proof' itself traces back to the idea of 'testing' something (related to 'prove'), so a proof was literally the sheet used to test whether the type was set correctly. The job, and the word, grew up alongside the printing press.
- job description
- Finds the typo you stared at ten times
- superpower
- Catches public vs pubic before Twitter does
- irony
- Their own emails still have typos
- motto
- Trust, but verify every comma