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, June 28, 2009

A limit to Anglican tolerance

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Anglicans, taking one with another, are a broad-minded and tolerant sort — a colleague once congratulated me on our magnanimity in not resen...

Information without knowledge

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I’ve just started reading a very promising book, Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free , by Charles P. Pierce...
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Saturday, June 27, 2009

The man who never listened to Michael Jackson

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Tell the Charlotte Observer that I’m ready for my interview. The reason: A mention at Headsup (thanks, fev) of an article in that paper on t...
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Friday, June 26, 2009

Those damn copy editors again

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You may have read that a former writer at the student newspaper at the University of Hawaii-Manoa has been accused of fabrication: An examin...
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English is not in danger

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A few days back, Language Log published a sneer at a panel discussion on English-only measures at the “Building the New Majority” conference...
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Thursday, June 25, 2009

Got prestige?

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A sentence in The New Yorker ’s profile of Angelo Mozilo refers to the head of Countrywide Financial as having delivered “the prestigious Du...
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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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