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.

Saturday, January 9, 2010

I tweet, you tweet, we all tweet

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Because the American Dialect Society is meeting in Baltimore this week, along with the Linguistics Society of America, I drove down to the H...
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Friday, January 8, 2010

Pick up after yourself

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Responding to yesterday’s “Turn out the lights” post, Doug Fisher of Common Sense Journalism commented thus: Most interesting from the S...
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Thursday, January 7, 2010

Turn out the lights

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When a notable actor expires, they dim the lights on Broadway in a brief tribute. It was confirmed yesterday that Media General will conso...
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Wednesday, January 6, 2010

What, me wordy?

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Sometimes patience gives way. There is a commenter — I can’t say who, since the s.o.b. writes anonymously — who has come to this blog repe...
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Crash blossoms, y'all, and Jan Freeman

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While I was paying attention to other matters, things developed: Crash blossoms blossom Last summer the Testy Copy Editors weighed in o...
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Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Editors as entrepreneurs

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In twenty-eight semesters of teaching editing, I have been lucky to encounter students who grasped the importance of the craft and showed a ...
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Monday, January 4, 2010

Operators are standing by

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If you marked the start of a new year with a resolve for some kind of self-improvement — and who among us couldn’t stand a little betterment...
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Saturday, January 2, 2010

Don't do yourself a mischief

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I had better issue an ***ICK ALERT*** for potentially offensive content below. ( That should hook you.) Those of you who were at least ...
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Don't give up the ship*

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A reader has written to express “gratitude for your blog, which helps me keep the faith,” and adding, “I, too, am an unemployed copy editor ...
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Friday, January 1, 2010

Quorum call

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A gentleman from Seattle named Charles Kraus published a light-hearted set of New Year’s resolutions in this morning’s Baltimore Sun . Among...
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