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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"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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I've seen "new lease in life," "new lease on life," and "new lease of life." Which is it? (Merriam-Webster says "on.") #copyediting
> Add 'wfLoadExtension( 'ParserFunctions' );' to the end of your LocalSettings (without the single quotes)
Got it, adding `wfLoadExtension( ParserFunctions );` to my LocalSettings.php :P
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
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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Surprised I'd never seen the British expression "do down" before. (H/t @Freedom_Press.) #copyediting
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
I finally posted an article going over the biggest style sheet I've ever made (150 pages) that I made for Blue Planet: Recontact, a 600-page cli-fi TTRPG.
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The phrase is "all of a sudden," but apparently some people use "all of the sudden." I can't remember ever seeing/hearing that before, but here it is in the FT today. Merriam-Webster weighs in here: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/usage-of-all-of-a-sudden #copyediting
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