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, March 7, 2013

Choose your battles

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One week from today I will be conducting an audio conference for Copyediting . The subject is "Choosing Your Battles," and you st...
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Saturday, March 2, 2013

Just like making newspapers

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A moment before the afternoon news meeting was to begin yesterday, a colleague remarked that he had been reading The Old Editor Says and en...
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Friday, March 1, 2013

Muster your forces

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Not that I want to belabor military metaphors, but it is sometimes useful to prepare for editing as a general prepares for battle: you surve...

The mentor you wish you had

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I drove up to Bel Air on Monday to have lunch with Andy Faith and give him a copy of The Old Editor Says , which is dedicated to him. It w...
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Get on the bandwagon

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Since publication of The Old Editor Says less than two weeks ago, sales have soared into the double digits. The bandwagon is rolling, and t...
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Thursday, February 14, 2013

"The Old Editor" on Kindle

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If you're hip and with-it and past that letters-on-paper thing, if pixels are your preference, you will be pleased to learn that the tim...
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

"The Old Editor" is in

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The Old Editor Says , which was first listed on Amazon.com over the weekend, is now in stock. Someone wondered whether some samples mig...
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Monday, February 11, 2013

See what The Old Editor Says

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I have produced a little book of sixty-odd pages of maxims from the paragraph game, with brief commentaries. Some are traditional, some fro...
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Thursday, January 10, 2013

A technical question, and an appeal for help

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Perhaps some of you who are knowledgeable can help me with an irritating problem. I work on an iMac at home, and nearly every day I get sh...
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Monday, December 31, 2012

Just call me "Mr. President"

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Went to see Hyde Park on Hudson today, mainly interested in seeing Bill Murray's portrayal of Franklin Roosevelt, since I had played Roo...
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