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.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Pedantic, but pragmatic

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The Times of London introduces a column on language written by Oliver Kamm. Mr. Kamm, whose column is called “The Pedant,” announces that ...
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The Republic of Moronia

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James Madison believed that a literate, educated populace was indispensable for a representative democracy, that the intrusion of religion i...
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Monday, June 29, 2009

AP Stylebook celebrates nerdity

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There are two stereotypes about copy editors. The first is that they are a group of burnt-out hacks and office failures who were shipped to ...
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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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