This has been bugging me since iTunes 9 was released. Before iTunes 9, when you wanted to mark a podcast or video as having been played or not, the verbiage Apple used was “Mark as played” or “Mark as unplayed.” When iTunes 9 launched, it became “Mark as watched” and “Mark as unwatched.” This is [...]
For the past couple of weeks in Serious Eats Talk, I’ve been meddling with Talk topic titles, trying to help make them more precise and reflective of what’s being asked in the thread. In some cases, I truly think my meddling is helpful. For instance, “Need a butcher in Phoenix” is a better title than [...]
I started reading Safire’s column last weekend and got a few inches in before I realized something was up. I actually liked it. So I checked the byline. Yup. Caroline Winter was filling in for the vacationing curmudgeon. She asks a question I’ve never thought of before: Why do we cap I? “Graphically, single letters [...]
The correction is almost as rich, available on Regret the Error. [via Neatorama]
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 [...]