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Phrase I'd like to nuke from orbit today: "predict/prevent X before it occurs/happens."
Predict/prevent MEANS before it happens, you don't have to say it TWICE.
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Weirdly, on pg 182 he goes back and forth between calling his dad’s mistress Tamara and Tereh. One must be a real name and one fake and he just missed a couple replacements. He did something similar in the first edition of Fast Times, where he left in “Clairemont High” at least once. #copyediting
Another in my ongoing series on publishers' failings: a paper in which Web of Science is variously given as 'web-of-science' and 'Web-of-Science'. The same paper also has a lot of missing spaces in the text.
#ScientificPublishing #AcademicPublishing #CopyEditing #Proofreading
This is a big reason I don't use #AI in my #editing or #freelanceeditor business. I paid for UChicago editing certificate classes, and it'd be stupid to throw that hard-earned knowledge away by relying on #LLMs and #AITools to edit. By offloading those #copyediting skills, you lose them.
It's important to ask this of yourself, as the information it yields is invaluable. Crushing it? Sounds like you hit upon something that works for you! So far on track? Progress! Haven't started? Ooohhh, this is a good one! Let's dig in!
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A typo in the words "Saint Louis University Public Law Review," where "Pubic" is used instead of "Public."
Drink!
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"There was a team in the US State Department that was in contact with equivalent teams in those countries that (foolishly) were planning to join the US in its invasion. There was a sense of unreality in these discussions. It appeared that the team in State wasn't across the detail of the military plans, unable to co-ordinate with allies that were desperate to see some real plans on the table."
Never seen this unusual use of the word "across" to mean "au courant with" or "aware of." Or course it could just be a typo. #copyediting
I know from being a publisher that some people just have an innate skill in being very chaffed by typos - and that extends to bathroom stalls. Whoever you are, irritated stranger, I hope you have found professional satisfaction in your abilities. #bathroomgraffiti #copyediting #eav
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The plural of series may be series, which is utterly irritating, but the singular possessive is series’s and the plural possessive is series’, which helps a little.
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Ninety-three times out of one hundred that you type parent's, you meant parents'.
Screenshot of Tampa Bay Times article. The headline reads: "Pam Bondi denounced by graduates of Stetson Law amid Epstein file revelations." The subhed reads: "A letter signed by nearly 400 graduates of the law school are demanding that administrators address the conduct of the U.S. attorney general."
@tampabaytimes.bsky.social Y'all got any copy editors left?
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TL;DR: "Relying heavily on AI dramatically reduces skill formation"
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Given how much profit journal publishers make, is it asking too much to check that the title of a paper is correct? Here's the link for anyone interested:
doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
It's the misplaced apostrophe that's annoyed me.
#ScientificPublishing #CopyEditing
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Give it to whomever wants it. ❌
Give it to whoever wants it. ✅
Give it to whomever you prefer. ✅
Give it to whoever you prefer. ❌ [but somehow less objectionable than erring with an incorrect "whomever"]
Social media use has probably pushed me towards #copyediting, because hashtags. Although nowadays I believe they have developed #copy-editing technology
You have. To verify. Direct quotes. Generative AI tools will make up quotes!!!
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Authors who suffer from impostor syndrome are the dreamers who picked up a book and were inspired to write their own stories. Then, one day, someone picked up their book and became inspired, too.
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All books will need #copyediting and #proofreading, but you may not need #developmentalediting.
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This reference to a "happy ending" in the NYT: I'm guessing many of their square readers won't know what this is, and it seems like the kind of thing the Times would usually explain, pedantically. But there's no way to explain this without getting explicit, so they just leave it there. #copyediting
