Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-10-07

"He dared to search for answers…" "using only reason" or "by means of reason alone"? #copyedits #
Bosphorus? Bosporus? #copyedits #
My esteemed editor things that "coronated" is an "unlovely verb." Sticking with plain old vanilla "crowned." #copyedits #
"First permanent government-run navy" or "first standing government-run navy"? And do the Southern Song beat out King Alfred for the claim? #
(Because that's just the sort of thing that a retired naval officer will write me a REALLY snarky letter about if I get it wrong.) #
Let's stay consistent with the Medieval World volume. So, Yellow river, not Yellow River; Alexius Comnenus, not Alexios Komnenos… #
OK, I hate this style change: from Count of Anjou to count of Anjou, from Prince of Galilee to prince of Galilee…I might push back. #
My esteemed editor has just called one of my verb choices "down market." I'm not feeling the love here. #
STET is my new favorite word. #
No, we will not change County of Edessa to county of Edessa. That would be something else, like a rural location in Texas. #
Oddly, no one has yet objected to my use of the verb "clobbered." Which is definitely down-market, IMO. #
I don't like the word "whereas." It's stuffy. We will not be substituting it for my more pedestrian "while." STET. #
When you start taking punctuation edits as personal insults, it's time for a break. #
Bernard of Chartres was quite a schoolmaster: "In some cases he would rely on exhortation, in others, flogging." #
This copyeditor does not like Any Capital Letters At All. Longxing Peace Accord, not Longxing peace accord! High King, not high king! ARGH. #
What is the point of changing all my "befores" to "earliers"? Does that actually improve the book? I think not. **snorts** #
For those just joining me, I'm live-tweeting my experience of reviewing 900 pages of copyedits on the History of the Renaissance. Fun, huh? #
My esteemed editor also hates the noun "coronation." And any form thereof. Childhood trauma, maybe? #
Sorry, but "grey" and "gray" seem like two different colors to me. I meant GREY. #
OK, I AM aware that I should know how to spell Plantagenet. **hides face in shame** #
It kind of looks like a herd of wild commas has stampeded through my manuscript and then died in random places. #
Oh, forget it. I'm going to go clean stalls now. #
One pilgrimage to Mecca = hajj. Two pilgrimages to Mecca = hajjes. I never knew that before. #copyedits #
Darn it, leave my semi-colons alone! #copyedits #
Took a day away from work to go to the State Fair of Virginia. Unfortunately, not what it was. Maybe next year. #

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