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Revenge of the copy editors: Grammar pros find internet stardom
Backed by the cheery fiddle and guitar of Tom Moss’s “Gypsy Night Dance,” the bespectacled white-haired gentleman in a blue blazer, striped bow tie, and pocket square is holding forth on the language issue of the day. “I’m sometimes asked,” he tells the camera, speaking patiently but gesturing intensely, “‘Is “data” singular or plural?’ The […]
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Grammar Girl is good for specifics when you already have a clue of what she’s talking about. I’ve found that readers who have no idea often get the wrong impression, for reasons that really are a natural consequence of technical writing by an expert.
(The bane of expertise: omitted transitions and use of turns of phrase that are precise in context but that can mean other things to a non-expert.)