Surgeons want to perform surgery. Editors want to edit. That may be the motive behind these graffiti incidents taking place in the Pratt Institute‘s sculpture garden in Brooklyn, NY. Each sculpture has a plaque describing the work of art. Someone (or perhaps more than one person) has been going around with a marker correcting some pretty bad and obvious typos on the plaques. The artist/professor in charge of writing the copy for the plaques says that the mistakes may have happened because he relies on his assistant, who is French, to create them, and there may have been a breakdown in the language and writing.

Not to denigrate any foreigners, but this is yet another example of how hiring a good editor beforehand can avoid some embarrassing mistakes that need to be corrected — one way or another — later.