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.

Monday, July 13, 2009

Murder and intelligent design

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Over the weekend I was delighted to pick up at the library the twenty-fourth Gregor Demarkian murder mystery by Jane Haddam, Living Witness ...
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Saturday, July 11, 2009

Politics muddles grammar

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At Language Log this morning, Mark Liberman comments, “For most intellectuals today, grammar is no longer a tool of rational analysis, but r...

Summer Saturday catchup

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A miscellany. More pointless distinctions Having cheerfully bashed The Associated Press Stylebook for its persistence in maintaining obsolet...
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Friday, July 10, 2009

Calling all subs

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Susan Keith, a professor of journalism at Rutgers and a colleague from the American Copy Editors Society, is at work on a project on the sta...
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Thursday, July 9, 2009

A new Garner

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Thank you, @mbrockenbrough, for word that the new edition of Garner’s Modern American Usage is forthcoming. The third edition, due out this ...
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Making distinctions

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Part of the copy editor’s responsibility in achieving clarity and precision of prose is to honor nuances of meaning. The trick is to know wh...
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Wednesday, July 8, 2009

The AP Stylebook: Repository of extinct rules

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A correspondent with a stronger stomach than mine follows the AP Stylebook’s “Ask the Editor” feature, where she found this exchange: Q. I...
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What comes after plagiarism

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The Colorado Springs Gazette has dismissed a student intern, Hailey MacArthur, after determining that she plagiarized material from The New ...
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Watching our language

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If you have not heard Geoffrey Nunberg’s commentaries on language at NPR’s Fresh Air or read his op-ed essays in various newspapers, you can...
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Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Other voices

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Item: If yesterday’s post about the increase in errors attendant on the reduction of copy desk staffs interested you, then you should certa...
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