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.

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Is nonlife threatened?

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From The Baltimore Sun : The woman was being treated at the station for nonlife-threatening injuries and was expected to be taken to a local...
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The substitution error

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Yesterday I quoted Jan Freeman’s caution that errors involving homonyms are often merely errors of spelling , rather than the result of igno...
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

It's just spelling

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The estimable Jan Freeman of The Boston Globe , whose column and blog I heartily endorse, keeps encountering some kind of obstacle in post...
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Further distinctions

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We’ll start out with some additions to the “Making distinctions” post and then proceed to odds and ends. I meant to add there, their, they’...
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

The diaspora of editors

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In 1997, when American newspapers were still hugely profitable and it looked as if they might come to grips with this Internet thing, a resp...
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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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