One of the common latin phrases of our times is “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” or “who watches the watchmen?”.
What would it be for “who edits the editor?”. I had an opportunity to make that joke recently but didn’t know the latin version so I couldn’t (and it just sounds like a normal question in english).
p.s. if you’re curious editors (even the chief) have copy editors who preview their work for typos and such.
Something like “Quis corrigit correctorem/editorem ipsum?”
“Editor” is of course originally a Latin word itself, but in Latin it means more literally “one who puts out, publisher” than “one who edits/corrects”.
Moved CS --> GQ.
Google Translate suggests: Qui in recensiones redactorem? (Actually, its first suggestion was “Qui in malis meis edidit?”, but that lost the rhetoric of using the same root word twice, so I played with it a bit. I know no Latin at all, so I hope someone else can come and repair the damage I did.)
Well, I like “redactor,” but the interrogative pronoun must be quis. Kimstu’s translation is perfectly fine.
How about quis redigit redactorem ipsum?