Editors are great for picking up those double the’s and similar mistakes, known as eye-skip errors. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Eyeskip Errors”
You know when you’re editing and you think you’re done and you have somebody else look at it one more time.
Oh yeah, and they find that you have like double thes in a row.
Yes, you know what that’s called when you make that mistake?
Something I really hate, it’s an I skip error.
It’s an I skip.
Your I skipped over the double the.
It just passed right by it.
This is a term for your pain here.
It it is.
It’s a I-SKIP error.
An I-SKIP error.
So they don’t call it a saccade.
Well, you could.
S-A-C-C-A-D-E.
That’s also a term for…
That’s too highfalutin.
Yeah, I guess so.
Too sadiddy.
