By Bill Walsh
No writer's or editor's table is whole with no battered, page-bent reproduction of the AP Stylebook. notwithstanding, this not-so-easy-to-use reference of journalistic variety is usually no longer updated and leaves journalists and copyeditors unhappy. invoice Walsh, reproduction leader for the Washington Post's enterprise table, addresses those shortcomings in Lapsing right into a Comma. In an opinionated, funny, and certain, curmudgeonly manner, he indicates easy methods to follow the elemental principles to precise, glossy grammar concerns. Walsh explains find out how to care for confusing events akin to stylish phrases, overseas phrases, and net converse.
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And philately (well, let’s make that engineering) is a subject, a field of study, an endeavor. That doesn’t make it a proper noun. Now, Engineering 101 would make sense capitalized, as a course title. So would Fundamentals of Engineering or even Advanced Engineering, though the latter would have to be very clearly stated as a course title to avoid raising my eyebrow. On the Web, I came across an author’s fascinating account of the gory details of getting a book published. ” Uh, right, pal—let’s take all our usage cues from the federal government.
Sure I am. com spells things, look in an on-line chat Holding the (Virtual) Fort 19 room. If you’re interested in what’s correct, at least for now, in the ever-evolving area of usage, you have to pick up a dictionary or a usage book. Dictionary editors insist that they only reflect usage, but that’s a lie they use to fend off the antielitist “no rights, no wrongs” contingent, just as art snobs snicker at the “I don’t know anything about art, but I know what I like” joke while keeping a long list of things we’re not allowed to like.
Boil the comparison down to its simplest form and you’ll see that twice as fast makes a lot more sense than one time faster. This page intentionally left blank. 6 Matters of Sensitivity Correctness, Political and Otherwise he PC (personal computer) begat the tough questions I addressed in Chapter 3, and another PC (political correctness) figures prominently in this chapter. The language is continually evolving to steer around insensitivity in areas such as race, sex and sexual orientation. A publication that follows these changes too quickly can appear pandering or patronizing at best or like a leftist manifesto at worst.