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, August 5, 2009

The patron and the protege

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Three summers ago I published on the original You Don’t Say blog jocular taxonomies of copy editors and writers . This summer, after discuss...
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Available for hire

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Experienced editor, with three decades of experience and temporarily at liberty, offers to provide editorial and other services: Will edit s...
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We like it vulgar

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Returning from a festival of Janeites in Britain, my friend the redoubtable Marie Sprayberry (Best Person when I married Kathleen in 1982) m...
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Monday, August 3, 2009

Native-born looniness

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Over at Baltimoresun.com, TV critic David Zurawik had the temerity to suggest that Lou Dobbs’s continued attention to the crackpot “birther”...
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Sunday, August 2, 2009

Take responsibility

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In an extraordinary article , Clark Hoyt, the public editor for The New York Times , takes us through the process by which a retrospective a...
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Saturday, August 1, 2009

The birthers' allergy to fact

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I have in my files a birth certificate, some kind of ancient thermal copy with the seal of the Commonwealth of Kentucky impressed in it. I a...
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Those Hundred Days

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This week’s book, Nothing to Fear: FDR’s Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America by Adam Cohen (Penguin Press, 372 pa...
Thursday, July 30, 2009

The joys of failure

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It’s a pity that discussion in comments of the substance of my interview with On the Media has been sidetracked by Robert Knilands, who bar...
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WTF

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Jesse Sheidlower, the formidable lexicographer and Editor at Large of the Oxford English Dictionary , is bringing out a new edition, the thi...
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

After the storm

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Despite the distresses of the day, I have not lost hope that journalism will return to the importance of editing. Much of my attention and e...
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