Words. Words about words. Words about copyediting. The occasional cultural observation.
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"Please tattle to Dreyer"
[Given that today’s missive includes more than a dozen footnotes, I remind you that you don’t have to violently scroll down and up and down and up to enjoy them; you can simply, depending on your particular reading gadget, hover over or cli...
The Pause That Refreshes
A question/request arrived the other day via the virtual mailbag:
Would you address at some point whether commas may be correctly used simply for tempo or emphasis? I.e., placed by the writer at their own discretion, for their own reaso...
wordly peregrinations, part II
In the mere handful of hours since I posted about this benighted bit o’ text:
. . . people have had a lot to say about its issues, and you can certainly go back and read through the issues (and the proposed solutions to the issues) in the...
wordly peregrinations
A friend forwarded this
to me—secretly, in dead of night—and by first, rough count it includes a solid half dozen or so copyediting infelicities, some arguable, I suppose, some certainly in-.
Comments are open to all.
Have at it.
(Y’k...
Second verse, not quite same as the first.
Day before yesterday I was reading yet another New York Times article on the unmitigated ego1 of the president of the United States and labored my way through it till I collapsed, exhausted or at least benumbed into a stupor, at the finish...
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