>>>Your priggishness (in regards to the English language) is showing again... :o) How much would you charge to be a copy editor? :o)
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>>I'd charge until I meet the enemy - on the condition that I edit the original, not the copy ;).
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>How about charging per mistake!

I've heard that there's only one newspaper back home ( http://www.politika.co.yu/ ), which still takes good care of grammar, and they actually have lectors who take care of that. Any error that the lectors catch goes against the reporter's pay, and any that they miss goes double against theirs ;).