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Death and typos: my 6 years evaluating online obituary remarks

Death and typos: my 6 years evaluating online obituary remarks

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Hardly ever is it "loss". Primarily, "lost" or "lose". "Sorry to become aware of your lost," an author may start. Or: "So sorry for your lose."Authors have issues with "passing" and "spirit" and "compassion" too: "We're distressed by his abrupt enthusiasm." "Rest in the arms of the Holy Spitit." "My inmost symphony".For 6 years, I operated at an online memorial business-- part of an unnoticeable network of material mediators entrusted with evaluating acknowledgement messages, or guestbook entries, connected to obituaries. I left this previous February having actually evaluated almost 500,000 remarks about the just recently deceased.My primary obligation was to keep a line system of in a different way identified, relentless acknowledgements safe and sugarcoated. Remarkably, I was hardly eve...