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.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Happy days are here again

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Having been let go at The Baltimore Sun last April, as I have repeatedly, and no doubt tiresomely, reminded you, I spent eleven months l...
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Monday, April 26, 2010

Attention must be paid?

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Perhaps you, like me, have been reading all the head-wagging in editorial and op-ed circles about the turrible, turrible polarization aff...
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Sunday, April 25, 2010

Get a grip

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I was amused, after the Congress enacted the president’s legislation to reform health care, by the overreaction, the screaming that our libe...
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Saturday, April 24, 2010

Tagged as a descriptivist

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If you missed yesterday’s post, “For whom, the bell tolls,” or read it yesterday, you have missed a recent comment by a reader signing i...
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Friday, April 23, 2010

For whom, the bell tolls

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Yesterday’s “Rules are rules” post quoted Professor Geoffrey Pullum on actual, rather than imagined, rules about the comma, but his post a...
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Thursday, April 22, 2010

Rules are rules

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Over at Language Log , Professor Geoffrey Pullum gives the lie to the canard that descriptivists think that there are no rules in English, p...
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Mark Twain showed us ourselves

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Samuel Clemens died a hundred years ago today, and Mark Twain with him. He was a newspaper reporter (“I hated to do it, but there wasn’t ...
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When do you stop?

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No doubt it is psychologically necessary for writers to believe that someone will read their work, but our experience as readers tells us ot...
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Monday, April 19, 2010

The $18,000 typo

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Penguin Group Australia is pulping 7,000 copies of The Pasta Bible cookbook because the recipe for tagliatelle with sardines and prosciut...
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Uncle John says, I want YOU

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for the American Copy Editors Society. Last week, after a five-year absence, I was able to return to a national ACES conference. In Phil...
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