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A month or so ago I let a headline for an online magazine stand with "payed" instead of "paid." That article was the only work I had that day, which reminded me of when I used to wait tables and did everything right when we were busy, but could easily mess up when we were slow because I wasn't "on."
Copyeditor Confessions: Me First
Photo: psyberartist Here in Chicago we have to work at celebrating the advent of spring. Even typing in my subzero office is challenging—thank god for fingerless gloves. So my idea is this: in the spirit of spring cleaning, since there’s no way I’m throwing my mattresses out in the snow, let’...
Hi Carol --
I think I might edit the second one a little differently:
The cost of the food would be paid by the diners, "who will presumably fatten both themselves and their wallets by means of the event.”
Or maybe even:
The cost of the food would be paid by the diners, who "will presumably fatten both themselves and their wallets by means of the event.”
Can't put my finger on why, but these read better to me. Or would that be putting too much of the original quote into unquoted territory?
Kate
Clumsy Quoting: Spot the Problem
I am often distracted by the awkward way in which a writer integrates quotations into the text. But when I started to write here about the specific problems, I didn’t know where to start. Take a look at the following quotations. Why don’t the following quotations read smoothly? See if you feel a...
I had no idea bout this either! How useful. I'm definitely going to pin it once I find it.
I'm not sure if this would work or if it even matters in 7, but in many graphics programs, when you want to resize a crop, holding down the Shift key while grabbing a corner keeps the aspect ratio correct.
Windows 7’s Snipping Tool
This will be old news to many readers, but I only recently discovered the Snipping Tool in Windows 7, and it is so useful and easy to use, I feel compelled to share. With this little gadget you can take a stable snapshot of anything on your computer screen and paste it into a Word doc, an e...
Carol, I've been wanting to ask you about copyeditor vs. copy editor for ages! I prefer copy editor, but I use copyeditor because of CMoS.
Maybe I'll switch back to copy editor. Once my current business cards run out, that is!
Kate
Dear Carol: Journals vs. Books Editing; Copyeditor vs. Copy Editor
Dear Carol, I am an experienced proofreader and beginner copyeditor who would like to work with academic publishers. I would like to get started with journals and move into books. Do you think this is a good approach? Anonymous Dear Anonymous, Not necessarily. When we hire in our department (...
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Great post, great comments! This is all so funny!
I hadn't heard bout the Shatner comma, but it immediately brought Christopher Walken's speech patterns to mind. There must be a Walken punctuation.
Silent mispronouncer here, too. I pronounced "Viola!" as "VeeOHlah!" for years, and always wondered how "wah-lah" was actually spelled. And I'm guilty saying things like ept, gruntled...
My mom has her own language. This is not an exaggeration: "Two real estate Mongols came into the restaurant the other day. They both ordered the Chicken Marsalis... are you okay??"
Still Learning:Fun Language Words
Hanging around the Internet, you pick up some interesting lingo. Not the kind you’re probably thinking—I’m talking about the jargon you learn from linguists at sites like Language Log and Johnson. The terms below are old news to language observers, but some I learned only recently. You will cer...
A great add-on for Firefox is the Zoom Toolbar extension, which puts a little toolbar with magnifying glasses wherever you like in your browser. You get a +, -, and = all in the same little space and can just click on them to resize any page.
For Happier Reading Online: Some Browser Tips
If you spend a fair amount of time reading online, and if, like me, you find that browsing and reading is sometimes difficult, uncomfortable, or nearly impossible because of type that’s hard to read, intrusive advertisements, or any number of other annoyances, then take a few minutes to discipli...
I almost always get the "copywriter" reply. I used to reply something like, "Oh, I tried copywriting ONCE and hated it!" until I realized the weird looks I was getting were a non-verbal, "Then why are you a copywriter...?"
Even in writing -- e-mail, cover letters, forums, you name it -- people see "copywriter" when I write "copyeditor."
How to Talk to a Copyeditor
Do you often find yourself at a party where the person making introductions is unaware of the etiquette whereby you mention a likely mutual interest such as “Carol also has a garden,” or “Carol also has a rotator cuff injury,” or “Carol also loves to watch really bad movies,” and instead says, “...
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