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Knowing (some) British slang, I was thrown by this headline. In the UK "cod" (adjective) also means "fake," but they're talking about fish here. #copyediting
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Headlines to be interpreted
From ’The Times’ (no I haven’t bothered reading it) and it begs many questions. Including
- why does the head of the Polis think he/she can make the moon disappear?
- is it accomplished by closing the curtains or a wee bit more sophisticated?
- is the threat to make the moon disapear a negotiating tactic?The mind boggles. Oh well better have another coffee before we go out for the morning run.
#Headlines #Interpretation #TheTimes #CopyEditing #sloppy #Literacvy
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Never seen the word "moreish" before. Seems chiefly or exclusively British and maybe Australian. It's in my paper copy of the Concise Oxford, so it's not new. Meaning: "something (usually food) that's so good it makes you want more." Etymologically pretty questionable IMO. #copyediting
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I saw the term "royal plural" long before I saw "royal 'we.'" "Royal plural" makes more sense because it also includes the word "our"—it's not just the word "we." (For example, "Our bath is almost ready.") But you never see "royal plural," and that bugs me. #copyediting
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Weirdly, on pg 182 he goes back and forth between calling his dad’s mistress Tamara and Tereh. One must be a real name and one fake and he just missed a couple replacements. He did something similar in the first edition of Fast Times, where he left in “Clairemont High” at least once. #copyediting
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Never seen this unusual use of the word "across" to mean "au courant with" or "aware of." Or course it could just be a typo. #copyediting
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This reference to a "happy ending" in the NYT: I'm guessing many of their square readers won't know what this is, and it seems like the kind of thing the Times would usually explain, pedantically. But there's no way to explain this without getting explicit, so they just leave it there. #copyediting
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Confronted by a sentence whose 3-word predicate follows a 64-word subject containing 4 nested subordinate clauses.
I'm going in. *cracks knuckles*
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me: writes a simple sentence
GPT: adds an em dash, a comma splice, a sudden yearning for transcendence, and calls it ‘compelling copy.’chill bro it’s a parking sign
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"Teething troubles," in the sense of difficulty getting some new project or team off the ground, seems to be exclusively UK. The first time I heard it was from a manager I worked for who was Indian, presumably with a British education. #copyediting
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Ted Turton, the painter who co-founded the Galway Arts Festival, wrote a wonderful memoir about his adventures with the legendary Footsbarn Travelling Theatre. I had the pleasure of copy-editing it.
Here's a short review in the Irish Times, and Ted's testimonial for my work. If you're looking for an editor or proofreader, I'm available!
https://tedturtonart.com/
https://stancarey.com/testimonials/#books #memoir #theatre #IrishBooks #TedTurton #Footsbarn #painting #copyediting #editing #Mastodaoine #arts
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Odds are a tricky thing to describe in simple newspaper-y metaphors. When something becomes more likely to happen, have the odds gone up or down, or what? These are both from today's FT, describing the same thing. #copyediting
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Words¹ misspelled² so often, even in edited text, that my copy-editor's heart does a little happy dance when I see them spelled appropriately:
ad nauseam, complement, its, just deserts, led, minuscule, principle, supersede
¹ In a broad sense, to include phrases.
² The descriptivist in me protests the implicit judgement, but "spelled in a nonstandardized way" is on the wordy side for a throwaway Mastodon post.#language #spelling #words #EnglishUsage #editing #copyediting #proofreading
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This is clever. There are times when you want to use nonstandard capitalization, but the word falls at the beginning of a sentence, so no one will be aware that you've capitalized it. (In that case, reword the sentence.) #copyediting
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Oddest caption I've seen this year:
"In a healthy garden where the material is quickly by the garden where. In a healthy garden where the material is quickly by plus fill out little."
A little cryptic, but I think it can be parsed as "we decided to economize on the copy-editing".
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Editing catch of the day:
A reference to Chico in "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" is now a reference to Chico in "A Fistful of Dollars". A good reminder of the always-look-it-up principle
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How to Win Publisher Praise For Delivering a “Clean Manuscript”
Get a jump on the final push to book publication Continue reading on The Writing Cooperative »
https://writingcooperative.com/how-to-win-publisher-praise-for-delivering-a-clean-manuscript-c5421c8685b#publishing #bookpublishing #booksandauthors #copyediting #gettingpublished
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"Borne" as an error for "born" is very common, but here (in the FT) we have the opposite, "born" where the right word is "borne." #copyediting
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#editing #copyediting
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I've seen "new lease in life," "new lease on life," and "new lease of life." Which is it? (Merriam-Webster says "on.") #copyediting
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Lots of "backsies" talk on social media today. I grew up with "No backsies," but now I'm seeing (much less often) "No take backsies" and "No takesies backsies" (yuk). I would hyphenate those last two, but better to just use the correct "No backsies." #copyediting
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Seems like "déjà vu" has been completely replaced by Yogi Berra's "déjà vu all over again," which in my humorless opinion stopped being funny a while ago. Time to go back to the original. #copyediting
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Is academic copy editing for you? Find out in our Oct. 21 webinar with James Harbeck, which will examine the particularities of copy #editing academic books and the skills required. This is a fascinating specialty that can’t be approached quite the same way as copy editing mainstream trade books and magazines. Sign up now to learn more: https://webinars.editors.ca/upcoming_webinar/academic-book-copy-editing-101/
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Surprised I'd never seen the British expression "do down" before. (H/t @Freedom_Press.) #copyediting
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First time I've seen "at pace," meaning "at a quick pace," obviously modeled after the now-common tech term "at scale," meaning "at a large scale." Crazy shit. #copyediting
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Brits love the future perfect tense so much. It's virtually never heard in the US. In this case, the speaker is saying "The word 'relentless' is probably used to describe me," which sounds more natural to my (American) ears. #copyediting
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The trouble with dangling modifiers. New blog post:
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/the-trouble-with-dangling-modifiers/#writing #grammar #syntax #EnglishUsage #language #editing #copyediting
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How and when should a copyeditor address potentially harmful language in fiction? Join our Feb. 13 webinar with Amy J. Schneider to learn how to spot bias in action and dialogue, approach representation of culture and religion, query #ConsciousLanguage issues and more. Sign up now: https://webinars.editors.ca/upcoming_webinar/conscious-language-and-copyediting-fiction/
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I was not expecting this footnote in the new Chicago Manual of Style. Thank you, editors of #CMOS18, for modeling #ConsciousLanguage.
"5.255: Making Conscious Choices…Here we draw on the term 'conscious language' as used by Karen Yin, founder of the Conscious Style Guide website." ❤️
#AmWriting #AmEditing #WritingCommunity #StyleGuide #StyleGuides #Copyediting #ConsciousStyle
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#ICYMI: The July edition of The #ConsciousLanguage Newsletter includes:
• Why We Shouldn’t Call Trump a “Criminal”
• Stop Saying “Conservative” When You Mean Fascist
• Words Such as Racist Slurs Can Literally Hurt—Here’s the Science✅ Read and subscribe: https://mail.consciousstyleguide.com/p/conscious-language-newsletter-july-2024
#AmEditing #Copyediting #Copyeditors #WritingCommunity #ConsciousStyleGuide #ConsciousStyle #InclusiveLanguage #ConsciousLanguage #Newsletter
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The December 2022 issue of The #ConsciousLanguage Newsletter is out! Topics include (hashtags mine):
• I’m a “Type 1 #Diabetic,” Not a “Person With Type One #Diabetes”: Rejecting Person-First Language
• 5 Helpful Tips for Explaining #Autism to Kids and Teens, According to Autism-Affirming Experts
• How to Identify and Eliminate #ExclusionaryLanguage at Work📗 #Read: https://consciousstyleguide.com/conscious-language-newsletter-december-2022/
📥 #Subscribe: https://consciousstyleguide.com/newsletters/
#Editors #AmEditing #Copyeditor #Copyediting #WritingCommunity
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Got my stupid editing song in my head again:
(extremely Frank Sinatra voice)
Chicago, Chicago, that manual of style!
Chicago, Chicago, I'll edit a while
I love it!
Betcha bottom footnote you'll choose to use
with Chicago, Chicago
The style that Kate Turabian can't shut down!
I had the time, the time of my life, and
I know which compound words take a hyphen
Chicago! My home style!#Academic #AcademicEditing #Copyediting #Citation #Referencing #CMOS #ChicagoManualOfStyle #Turabian
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Got my stupid editing song in my head again:
(extremely Frank Sinatra voice)
Chicago, Chicago, that manual of style!
Chicago, Chicago, I'll edit a while
I love it!
Betcha bottom footnote you'll choose to use
with Chicago, Chicago
The style that Kate Turabian can't shut down!
I had the time, the time of my life, and
I know which compound words take a hyphen
Chicago! My home style!#Academic #AcademicEditing #Copyediting #Citation #Referencing #CMOS #ChicagoManualOfStyle #Turabian
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Got my stupid editing song in my head again:
(extremely Frank Sinatra voice)
Chicago, Chicago, that manual of style!
Chicago, Chicago, I'll edit a while
I love it!
Betcha bottom footnote you'll choose to use
with Chicago, Chicago
The style that Kate Turabian can't shut down!
I had the time, the time of my life, and
I know which compound words take a hyphen
Chicago! My home style!#Academic #AcademicEditing #Copyediting #Citation #Referencing #CMOS #ChicagoManualOfStyle #Turabian
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Got my stupid editing song in my head again:
(extremely Frank Sinatra voice)
Chicago, Chicago, that manual of style!
Chicago, Chicago, I'll edit a while
I love it!
Betcha bottom footnote you'll choose to use
with Chicago, Chicago
The style that Kate Turabian can't shut down!
I had the time, the time of my life, and
I know which compound words take a hyphen
Chicago! My home style!#Academic #AcademicEditing #Copyediting #Citation #Referencing #CMOS #ChicagoManualOfStyle #Turabian
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Got my stupid editing song in my head again:
(extremely Frank Sinatra voice)
Chicago, Chicago, that manual of style!
Chicago, Chicago, I'll edit a while
I love it!
Betcha bottom footnote you'll choose to use
with Chicago, Chicago
The style that Kate Turabian can't shut down!
I had the time, the time of my life, and
I know which compound words take a hyphen
Chicago! My home style!#Academic #AcademicEditing #Copyediting #Citation #Referencing #CMOS #ChicagoManualOfStyle #Turabian
