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No, we're not calling it Alligator Alcatraz.
It's a Florida concentration camp.
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#copyediting is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 17 people shared 29 posts with it — around 1 a day. Activity is down 33% versus the previous week, peaking on Jul 29 with 4 posts.
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Once we've established, as we have repeatedly, that "deport" is the wrong word, I'd support "rendition," which fully carries the meaning of what's going on and sounds, at least to me, properly odiously fascistic.
YM, as always, MV.
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By the way, it's not Madame President.
It's Madam President.
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BTW the plural of CEO is not CEO's but CEOs.
I think that might be useful knowledge for some of you.
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My 2025 #copyediting mission will be to inspire everyone to learn to put the terminal punctuation on the correct side of the quotation marks in constructions like:
Do you really enjoy the song "Yesterday"?
Yes, I love the song "Yesterday"!
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BTW he wasn't assassinated.
He was murdered.
Let's not get grandiose.
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If you all could preserve “criterion” as the singular and “criteria” as the plural, I’d take it as a great personal kindness.
Thank you for your attention to th
*is crushed to death by a plummeting Acme anvil*
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palate is the taste/mouth thing
palette is the paint/color thing
pallet is the bed/platform thing
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sieg = i before e
heil = e before i
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Of course my experience is limited, but I've never encountered a writer who wasn't appreciative of being conventionally copyedited on the little mechanical details so long as you were attentive to and supportive of their voice and style when they were coloring outside the lines.
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1. It's Denali.
2. It's the Gulf of Mexico.
3. If you use the r-word, I will block you.
4. If you use the t-suffix, ditto.
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Not for the first time, not for the last time:
The best way to use the phrase "begs the question" is not to.
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For episode number five, we are chatting with Jessa Casey and discussing her book, Daphne and her Daffodils.
Come join the fun!
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Lord's Support --> Lord's Supper
This one made me giggle. 😄
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I see the word "debrief" misused now and then. But it's shocking to see it in the WSJ, which has always had great copyeditors. They mean "briefed" here. #copyediting
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Today’s *Do You Need a Copyeditor* quiz:
Difference between “extortion” and “blackmail.”
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Having something to say and saying it beautifully are distinct pursuits.
We can talk about the AI em-dash situation all you like. But another pervasive issue for me is the use of a foot mark where a proper apostrophe should be (option-shift-]). Here are just a few recent examples 🙄
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High-stakes copyediting question: do superscript numbers for footnotes precede punctuation, or follow it?
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For our third episode, we are sitting down with Debbie Baldwin and discussing all about her new release, The Architect of Deception.
Come join the fun!
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Truth.
I had a MS. once where the publisher assured me that the author "just had to finish up" the last chapter ere I got it. Of course that wasn't so. I had to do another run just to check for new changes author made.
It was not fun. #proofreading #copyediting #BookSky
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Pro Tip: the more engaging a writer you are, the more proofreaders you need. They should be given the manuscript in sequence. Not all at once. Because even copy editors can get engrossed in a story and miss stuff. Let's just say it's a good thing I'm also the publisher of THIEFTESS. #BookSky
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