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Did David really type “awful lonely” after all those rants?
DAVID, YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID
I shared this article with my wife, who is an editor by training and profession. And yes, she loved it. But more importantly, she has two solid suggestions.
First, “Typos mean you’re human, bad grammar means you don’t care.” Should be the next Autopian t shirt.
Second, the thumbs up icon should be a horn that goes “beep beep.”
Blah, blah, blah. Where did you say the You-Hoos are?
As an engineer who manages the work of other engineers, what David highlights here gives me immense satisfaction. I’m an engineer who can talk to non-engineer humans, so I get the opportunity to try and decipher the grammatically incoherent comments my fellow engineers contribute and convert them into words with the correct meaning and sentences conveying the proper thoughts. For a bunch of folks who care very deeply about the numbers conveying the right value, it amused me how little they can care about their words conveying the right information!
I think you mean “try to decipher” 😛
It warms my Liberal Arts heart to see a mention of Strunk & White, I figured it was lost to history once emojis were born.
Now I need to know how DT feels about the Oxford Comma.
Ahem.
Quoth DT, “It’s fairly straightforward, and also in the legendary grammar book ‘Elements of Style’ by Strunk & White — a book that I bought for each member of our team (out of my own pocket!).”
Surely he knows that book titles (like movie titles, TV series titles, and record album titles) should be italicized, whereas short story titles (like TV episode titles and song titles) get wrapped in quotation marks.
Harrumph.
Also S&W is a grammar book the same way toilet paper is a tree.
Drivers *WHO*…
Readers *WHO*…
People *WHO*…
Also, The Chicago Manual of Style or GTFO.
I remember wanting to slap a few people with a thick copy of the AP Stylebook back in my Jello Picnic days.
(…and everywhere else I’ve ever worked, for that matter.)
These issues are way down the the list of grammar/editing/spelling issues on this site.
Every article has obvious simple errors without having to argue if Strunk & White or AP Style Guide is the one true answer.
The content is worth dealing with the grammar issues.