Rare (slightly clunky) use of the British English "has nothing on" in a NYT article. "X has nothing on Y" means roughly "X can't compare to Y." George Harrison on Lennon's slide solo in "For You Blue": "Elmore James got nothing on this baby!" #Copyediting
"Deflected" from a party? I don't think I've ever seen this usage. Are they trying not to hurt Graydon Carter's feelings by not saying that he was "turned away" or "barred" from it or something? #Copyediting
Misuse of the word "cowardly" here, which is an adjective, not an adverb, though the "-ly" is misleading. Nevertheless, Schumer is a coward. #Copyediting
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And Michael Tomasello's book "Origins of Human Communication" has a sentence 261 words long that's more intelligible than many sentences one tenth its length.
Clarity hinges on structure and sense, and his line uses 11 semicolons – here, the right choice – to form a precisely executed parallelism.
Sometimes four short sentences are better than a single 140-word behemoth built with creaky semicolons and sticky tape.
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"On Coney Island" is definitely not right, though "on Long Island" is standard, and the two are on the same piece of land (a long island that includes Brooklyn and Queens). I think the difference is that C.I. is just a neighborhood, whereas L.I. actually refers to the piece of land. #Copyediting
Shocked that The New Yorker, of all publications, would get the that/which distinction wrong (see: restrictive vs. nonrestrictive clauses). The rules for that/which are looser in the UK, so maybe they're being anglophilic? #Copyediting
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Personal sites I can give a pass to, but corporate sites/newsletters must invest in checks by more than the author.
If not you will inevitably get bad grammar, strange phrasing, and illogical statements like the ones in this post I came across today at work.
It simply erodes any faith I may have had in the post and ultimately the organisation. If they spare so little thought and attention to stuff like this, how can I trust what they say or with more important things?
Publisher’s cost cutting, including the botched use of AI, pushes editors of top journal to resign
Walled Culture has noted previously the fabulous levels of profit that many academic publishers have achieved, largely through the abuse of copyright, as explained in Walled Culture the book (free digital versions). And yet those levels are apparently not enough for perhaps the most successful of the academic publishers, Elsevier. A story on the site Retraction Watch reports on the mass […]
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What does "CPD" mean to you? Today, at work, I've seen it refer to both "continuing professional development" AND "cable position device". (Separate texts!)
This use of "owing to" (in The New Yorker) feels wrong to me. "Owing to" usually refers to something existing, or an event that has occurred, not a risk: "He had constant headaches, owing to the car crash he'd been in at age seven." See examples (from https://www.english-corpora.org/glowbe/). #Copyediting
New Year's resolutions for editors and proofreaders. I wrote these for AFEPI Ireland a couple of years ago; some apply more broadly to freelance or office work:
https://afepi-ireland.com/blog/new-years-resolutions-for-editors-and-proofreaders/
Is the word "desi" (upper- or lowercase) now mainstream enough that it can be used in the NYT without an explanation? I know it because I've worked with so many desis, but I assumed most non-desis had never heard it. #copyediting
