Since my first job as a copywriter (which, by the way, is a word that I had to add to my Google and MS dictionaries in order to not have that annoying red squiggly line), I’ve confused many a strangers and friends alike.
You see, when I say, “I’m a copywriter,” people imagine me spending all of my time pouring over boring copyrights. That, my friends is something like a copyright attorney. Of which, I am neither an attorney, nor someone who begins to understand the details of copyrights–other than knowing I should put a little © all over the place when I talk about Quirky Chrissy©. AmIright?
So this is where spelling counts, people. Grammar is important.
Copy is print. Copy is written advertising. And written media. If you just write blogs, you are a blogger, but if you write actual website content (like for…Groupon or a videographer’s website), then you may be a copywriter. Because a copy writer—Wait for it–WRITES COPY.
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Yes. My official title is “Application Architect Consultant”. Try to tell me either what I do or what industry I’m in by that. …each word implies something, only one of them being even somewhat the normal usage of the word by people who don’t do what I do.
I don’t even know what that means. What DO you do?
Holy cow! …I was reviewing the blogs I follow and the threads I was subscribed to and realized I never answered you! Better late than never I suppose. My bad …my spam filter must have ate the reply notification. So, sorry. :S …anyway, it means I’m a computer nerd programmer 😀
That makes a lot of sense now! 🙂
Again, sorry about seemingly just ignoring you. I also didn’t get a follow up to this one, and I have a theory: your color scheme makes the “Notify me of follow-up comments via email.” and “Notify me of new posts via email.” text nearly invisible (white on light pink), so I may never have actually checked them. I have now. …this is what happens when a computer nerd starts reading your blog. 😛
I’d accept that excuse, but I had a different color scheme at the time of your original comment. #BUSTED 🙂
lol, good catch (and I DID receive a notification on *this* one).
You’re not allowed to use the oxford comma at work? That is irritating, lousy, and downright rude. See what I just did there? 😛
I, am an associate financial representative. This confuses people because my title is a lot more elaborate and exciting than my job.
Nope. Are you people throwing in commas for no good reason?
What are you telling me? I LOVE that comma, it’s my favorite comma, it’s my favorite correction, more than it’s, its, or anything! Love the cat, too,
I love that comma too. More than anything. Ever. And somehow I’m supposed to train myself not to use it. It’s a very sad, depressing and miserable grammar state.
But I LOVE it so much! It just feels so right when you use it, right? I feeel like getting all sloppy drunk and drunk dialing that little comma and telling it how much i love it. Don’t you?
Yes! Let’s do it!!
We should do a twitterdrunk/skypedrunk ode to Mr. Oxford, the serial comment, and wax all poetic and everything. When? I’m free with hubs gone. Freeeeee! Free, free, and free!!!!
OMG. This is sounding like the greatest plan ever. Would it make me super lame and losery to schedule it for a Saturday night at like 8?
We can just schedule a CREATIVE POWER MEETING Sat @8pm, nothing losery about it, but which time zone are you in? Cos if it’s 8pm, does that mean I’m drinking heavily at 5pm?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Yes. Yes, it does.
WEll crap, not a problem, I’ll just pretend I’m in your time zone. I mean, that’s a way to define our creativity, right?
Absolutely…I mean…it’s 8 o’clock SOMEWHERE, right?
Absolutely. it’s on my calendar. What’s the attire?
Business casual. Hold the business. Double casual.
Is that stained sweatpants casual or i’ve been in my pajamas and bathrobe all day casual?
Ladies choice 😉
My job is a client driver. I don’t drive clients- I move business development forward. Hate my title!
LMAO. Client driver. *Insert copious amounts of laughter* OK I’m done for now.
I don’t have a job title that confuses people but I’m constantly confusing people when I explain that the company I work for are marketing research consultants. I get asked a lot if we’re telemarketers. I’m like no, we’re consultants that companies hire to manage their marketing and research projects. Oh like R&D? No as is marketing research. Oh so you hire the telemarketers? No. But we do analyze their findings. Hurts my head
Yikes. That sounds head hurty.
I don’t have a job title so I have to make one up. Sometimes I forget what I tell people. From now on I think I am just going to start saying I am an application architect consultant just because nobody will know what it is and I’ll be able to pull it off by making even more stuff up.
That cat…it’s so funny. I don’t even know why, but I can’t stop laughing!
Domestic Architect. You are DEFINITELY a domestic architect.
My job doesn’t have a confusing title, but it also does not indicate AT ALL what I actually do… it’s basically a bunch of corporate-sounding words strung together. Every few years, one of those corporate words gets a “Senior” or “Manager” attached to it to signal a promotion.
I’m a grammar Nazi so this post cracked me up. One of my favorite examples is “Let’s eat Grandpa!” versus “Let’s eat, Grandpa!” Commas save lives.
I ALMOST posted that let’s eat meme…and then I found this cat.
In my teaching years I used this as a infographic on oxford commas: http://9gag.com/gag/2069169 and well, the song is cool, too!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_i1xk07o4g
That. Is. AMAZING.
Hey, pretty cool song! 😉 Was this video done somewhere in California’s central valley or Kansas? Must be the heartland for all the guns around.
I almost used your meme image, but I remembered that there may be copywrite laws associated with it, so I’m asking permission to use it.
Thanks for asking!
So I actually got this one from a meme generator, which I’ve linked to. If you click on the image, it will take you to my source.