You Don't Say

John McIntyre, whom James Wolcott called "the Dave Brubeck of the art and craft of copy editing," writes on language, editing, journalism, and random topics. Identifying his errors relieves him of the burden of omniscience. Write to jemcintyre@gmail.com, befriend at Facebook, or follow at Twitter: @johnemcintyre. His original "You Don't Say" blog at The Baltimore Sun ran from 2005 to 2021, and posts on it can sometimes be found at baltimoresun.com through Google searches.

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Teach your children well

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Mem Fox, teacher and writer of children’s books, says this about her twin vocations in Radical Reflections : Those who write well have more ...
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Saturday, May 9, 2009

Talk retro to me

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This one is for the Young People, if any such lurk among my readers. Are you mystified by the peculiar turns of speech when Baby Boomers tal...
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The other place and this one

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Now that You Don’t Say is no longer a working blog at Baltimoresun.com , it is not listed at that site’s main page. But it will continue to ...
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Friday, May 8, 2009

Watch where you sit

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A recent Baltimore Sun article contained a sentence saying that federal proceedings supercede local judgments . So they do, but the word is...
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Thursday, May 7, 2009

Look over at Blogs.com

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By invitation, I offered Blogs.com a list of my top ten blogs on language and editing — a selection that should not astonish anyone who has ...
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Puzzling possessives

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A few days ago a reader wondered about the construction pork producers’ and Israelis’ objecting to . Why apostrophes? The use of a possessiv...
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Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Presented without comment

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An Irish student inserts a bogus quotation in the Wikipedia entry for a recently deceased French composer —“to show how journalists use the ...
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15 books

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Bill Walsh has challenged me on Facebook to do the 15 books thing — but why shold I drive traffic to Facebook, which doesn’t need it, instea...
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Monday, May 4, 2009

All right, back to business

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Item: A Washington Post article on runoff from power plants contained this sentence: Plants in Florida, Pennsylvania and several other sta...
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Yeah, people still read books

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Manning the pumps on the copy desk at The Baltimore Sun these last several months did not leave a great deal of leisure for reading. But no...
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