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, June 24, 2009

C'mon, AP Stylebook, fix it

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That nagging little Jiminy Cricket voice of conscience in my head was asking the other day, “John, why can’t you help the AP instead of bas...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

The pipes, the pipes are callin'

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Barbara Phillips Long forwards this morsel from The Wrap in which Ray Richmond considers the effect of the News Fuse application for the iPh...
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O my people

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Mark Liberman, writing with his usual clarity at Language Log , examines examples of what people appear to think that “passive voice” means....
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Monday, June 22, 2009

Fancy a pint?

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Instead of posting on journalism and other ills of the Republic, I am heading out to the Hamilton Tavern with my son for a pint. You come to...
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Sunday, June 21, 2009

The president's grammar

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After the administration of President George W. Bush, whose syntax frequently looped around is own feet and tripped itself, it hadn’t occurr...
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Friday, June 19, 2009

Today in history

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Early in the morning on this date in 1984, I began making telephone calls to get the word out about the arrival on the scene of two persons ...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Ease up on the academic

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The doctor is IN. An inquiry from a reader who wonders about criticism that his writing may be excessively academic. [F]or the past year I h...
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Voices from the choir

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A serendipitous discovery and a boon to time-wasters goofing off at work across the land: The King’s Singers’ famous weather report for the ...
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I'll write what I like, said he

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Responding to the post “This is not a passive construction,” Bruce Holtgren posed these questions on my Facebook page:* Regarding this topic...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

You get one vote

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Language is perhaps the ultimate expression of democracy. In her Boston Globe column on language last Sunday, Jan Freeman wrote about the sh...
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