Sad news from the world of publishing. When will this inter-style-guide warfare end? #copyediting #proofreading
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I thought the term "own-goal" had become common and generally understood in the US, but apparently not. The NYT helpfully explains what it means before quoting someone who uses it. #Copyediting
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When I was a copy editor for a financial firm, I convinced our chief investment officer and my boss, the marketing director, to delete the investment term "dead cat bounce" from a quarterly commentary by arguing it is overtly violent and macabre.
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"Deflected" from a party? I don't think I've ever seen this usage. Are they trying not to hurt Graydon Carter's feelings by not saying that he was "turned away" or "barred" from it or something? #Copyediting
Misuse of the word "cowardly" here, which is an adjective, not an adverb, though the "-ly" is misleading. Nevertheless, Schumer is a coward. #Copyediting
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And Michael Tomasello's book "Origins of Human Communication" has a sentence 261 words long that's more intelligible than many sentences one tenth its length.
Clarity hinges on structure and sense, and his line uses 11 semicolons – here, the right choice – to form a precisely executed parallelism.
Sometimes four short sentences are better than a single 140-word behemoth built with creaky semicolons and sticky tape.
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I'm probably coming to this late, but are people using the word "penultimate" to mean "ultimate"? I may need to lie down. #Copyediting
"On Coney Island" is definitely not right, though "on Long Island" is standard, and the two are on the same piece of land (a long island that includes Brooklyn and Queens). I think the difference is that C.I. is just a neighborhood, whereas L.I. actually refers to the piece of land. #Copyediting
Shocked that The New Yorker, of all publications, would get the that/which distinction wrong (see: restrictive vs. nonrestrictive clauses). The rules for that/which are looser in the UK, so maybe they're being anglophilic? #Copyediting
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That moment when you are proofreading and you see something funny: a period that looks odd. Yep, it was in italics, just a little tilted. 
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