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, November 26, 2009

The Times leads a sheltered life

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In the New York Times article on Michaele and Tarek Salahi . the would-be reality show participants who wormed their way, uninvited, into a...
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Only another copy editor would understand

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Reacting to my mordant “Horoscope for editors” post (sample: The people who carried your company into bankruptcy will be given bonuses. Yo...
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Unstable core

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I am not persuaded that the Internet reduces our attention spans or that the 140-word bursts on Twitter make our thinking superficial, but y...
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Monday, November 23, 2009

And yet, it moves

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By coincidence, the weekend brought the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species and the publicatio...
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Luke Skywalker, call your service

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Hyperbole of the day, from The New York Times : A fight of galactic proportions over health care looms.
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Horoscope for editors

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Aries (March 21-April 19) — A writer whose childish excesses you challenge will accuse you of interfering with his “voice.” His editor will...
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The good student

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At the library, leafing through A Mathematician’s Lament , Paul Lockhart’s jeremiad about the incompetent teaching of math in our schools, I...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Real or Onion?

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It is not an easy matter to determine the point at which the United States of America transcended satire, but it is a simple matter to ident...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Devoted to grammar

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Let’s suppose you are an aspirant to the Priesthood of All Grammarians. You will, of course, have the sacred texts, MWDEU , Garner on Usage,...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Mock the AP Stylebook

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This is fishing with dynamite. On Twitter, @APStylebook, which previously solicited adoration for its latest edition, rather as if buying ...
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