Adam Kuban: Kublog

my rest stop on the information superhighway

Good riddance to copy editors

A clever tribute to a fading profession appears in the Washington Post. Snip: Copy editors were fine-tuners, fixing basic but important things that a first line of editing might’nt catch: Typos, errors in facts, spelling, syntax, punctuation, clarity, word usage, style, parallelism, and not letting sentences run on. They would also bear principle responsibility for [...]

Stylebites, 6/16/2008 – 7/01/2008

STYLE MATTERS capitalization Watch your caps, folks. I’m seeing weird-ass shit that shouldn’t be capped. And I’m seeing things lowercased that should absolutely be capped. It’s driving me crazy because this is elementary school English. I’m not going to go over the basic rules of capitalization, because you learned that in third grade. Er, maybe [...]