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 17, 2009

A toast for my son

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John Paul Lucien McIntyre, Bachelor of Arts, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, May 17. 2009. His senior essay was on the salute t...
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Friday, May 15, 2009

The treason of the clerks

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Alice, shut your eyes.* Christopher Francese, a professor of classics at Dickinson College, has published a well-reasoned and traitorous ess...
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You get what you pay for

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Pam Robinson’s Words at Work blog has a recent post about the mixup at The Washington Times in which an article about murdered Chicago scho...
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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Who's your daddy?

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Say it three times: Correlation does not equal causation . A headline at ABC.com read, “No More ‘I dos’? Unwed births spike.” The second hal...
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A small gap in the language

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Jeff McMahon’s Scorched Earth blog , in a link forwarded by one of my readers, is looking for a single word to identify the opposite of envi...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Sons, take heed

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The Library of America, may it go from strength to strength, has released editions of the short stories and novels of John Cheever; and if y...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009

An unbearable scene

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It was one of the editors I hired who, a while back, made sure that you did not read a description of a homicide as a grizzly scene . A griz...
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Monday, May 11, 2009

The world didn't end in 1970

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Many of you will have recognized the title of yesterday’s post, “Teach your children well,” as an allusion to the Crosby, Stills, Nash, and ...
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Dammit, Jim, I'm a journalist, not a Trekkie

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Regret the Error is, for a journalist, a there-but-for-the-grace-of-God-go-I site. Craig Silverman collects corrections from print and Web ...
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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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