“Are you fucking kidding me with this dangling modifier!?”
Upon arriving at U of T in first-year, the <i>Strand</i> seemed like a good option for an extra curricular activity. Some people might want to be on student counsel to “positively effect student’s experience” or whatever the fuck, but we were FUCKING TIRED of seeing not only grammatical errors but also noticing style inconsistencies in ‘The Strand’. Subsequent to our DM’s attempting to join as copyeditors being ignored for 2 years (seriously check your fucking E-mail). We finally got the chance this year fix this shit. Owing to the fact that the small proportion of qualified copy editors on the team means that the only copy-editors are ourselves, sometimes it’s really fucking hard to make sure no errors get threw, the masthead sometimes add errors in the process. As they are members of the goddamn masthead, we expect them to actually be trustworthy. Check the fucking style guide KYLE! We never have and never will use the American spelling for “colour!”
Don’t even get us started on motherfucking punctuation. One time we found no less then fifteen errors in one article. We have never drank as much as we did that night …trying to drown our sorrows. If we worry about being to harsh in our corrections, we just say—“fuck it”, and we speak are minds. We often write WTF in the comments, when we find an unclear pronoun reference or a squinting modifier. And copyediting the <i>Stranded</i> sections are even harder because those comedians like to forego all grammar and punctuation rules and do whatever they fuck they want. Oh, and same for the fucking poets in the magazine. Tossing commas everywhere when there should of been semi colons. And what’s all this business with artistic sentence fragments. Go fuck yourselves!
Without further adieu, we should pay our complements to Tamira Frooomen, whose a pretty good Senior copy editor but what kind of asshole thinks that a possessive for a name ending in ‘s’ SHOULD HAVE A FUCKING APOSTROPHE S AFTER IT! WE DON’T GIVE A SHIT WHAT YOU THINK! IT’S JAMES’S!!!! FUCK YOU!* WHAT WOULD JESUS’S DO !?
So, anyways you should really join <b>The Strand</b> next year to help with editing, it’s a very unique job, on account of we are both graduating. To bigger horizons. Hopefully endeavoring to be real copy—editors, but we’ll burn that bridge when we get to it. For now we have senioristis and we are yelling a big fuck you to any writers who’s ever wronged us. But at least we got the added bonus of free sweaters.
Well, in this day in age, life isn’t always a bowl of chile! Fuck it!
We bid you ado!