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, October 7, 2009

You may fire when ready

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From an advertisement for an opening for an editor at a Christian publishing concern: Knowledge of cannon law, Church history, & world...
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Why newspapers fail

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I was well along in Alex S. Jones’s Losing the News: The Future of the News That Feeds Democracy ,* nodding at what have become commonplaces...
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Thursday, October 1, 2009

Other stuff you ought to read

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Item: The estimable Jesse Sheidlower, whose The F Word deserves your close attention, has an essay at Slate.com about the difficulties of i...
Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Here comes the judge

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Sharon Eliza Nichols boasts that she has more than 300,000 members on her Facebook group, I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar, and these v...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

How dumb can you get?

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Stupidity used to be defined, at least in Baltimore, by the guys who decided to rob a gun store on Harford Road in Parkville. They attached ...
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Monday, September 28, 2009

Your votes and patronage appreciated

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Word arrived Friday that I have been nominated for a Mobbie, one of The Baltimore Sun ’s awards for outstanding Maryland blogs. Voting begin...
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Sunday, September 27, 2009

Purging the books

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Every few years, it seems, some necessity demands removal of superfluous books from the shelves — or books that can be perceived as superflu...
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Saturday, September 26, 2009

Zombie editing

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Once again this morning, The Sun published an article about someone who suffered nonlife-threatening injuries .* Life-threatening is bad en...
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Friday, September 25, 2009

Are you a closet Socialist?

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Amid all the cries of “Socialism!” as the Congress has grappled with the problems of reshaping the nation’s health care system, I thought th...
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Today's word: egregious

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Egregious (adj.) From the Latin egregius (surpassing, illustrious). Formerly excellent, outstanding, or distinguished. Now used almost exc...
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