On What It's Really Like To Be A Copy Editor
I think I get that a copy editor copyedits. But what ever happened to copy-editing?
I have copyedited just enough to appreciate every word in this piece. It's like being a pretty good minor league catcher, but knowing you'll never make it to the bigs. And your knees are killing you.
My favourite [I'm in Canada, which makes everything more complicated] quote is from the Canadian Press Stylebook: "If you take hyphens seriously, you will surely go mad."
Posted on July 27, 2010 at 12:11 pm
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On What It's Really Like To Be A Copy Editor
Weewitch, I hate to tell you this, but "impact" was once a perfectly good verb and probably is once again, despite the period when Miss Thistlebottom exiled it to the dentist's office.