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.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Lure a reader, get a book

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A limited-time offer for fans of You Don’t Say: Introduce five friends to this blog, and I will send you a free book. The catches: I want t...
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Do you know where Puerto Rico is?

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Blame the McKinley administration. Coming to imperialism just as it was passing its high-water mark, the United States, which had previously...
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Apologies to the Klingons

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Some time back, I made a snarky remark about Star Trek fans who had undertaken to translate the Bible into Klingon. Now, thanks to a new boo...
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Tapped out

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In multiple articles you will see or will have seen that Judge Sonia Sotomayor has been tapped for the Supreme Court by President Obama. As...
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It's summer, already

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As regularly as the swallows return to Capistrano or the buzzards to Hinckley, journalists reach for seasonal cliches. If you read a newspap...
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Monday, May 25, 2009

A free book

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Proceed with all deliberate speed to The Lexicographer’s Rules , the blog where Grant Barrett is making available an electronic version of h...
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Sunday, May 24, 2009

Meanwhile, back in the kitchen

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Eat Drink Man Weblog , my son’s food blog, returns with a post on grilled vegetable salad. It’s summertime. Enjoy.
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Things you know that are wrong

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Two points from Patricia T. O’Conner and Stewart Kellerman that you ought to keep in mind if you are serious about writing and editing: It i...
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Friday, May 22, 2009

That thing I say about baseball

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A very kind note arrived today from Andy Knobel, a veteran sports copy editor who wound up under my purported authority for the past two yea...
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Thursday, May 21, 2009

Words for the times

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Bought out : Having taken a buyout , an agreement to leave voluntarily in exchange for a substantial payment, often the equivalent of one or...
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