things you do that you just know most copyeditors are going to screw up…

The line: from Algini: "—we shall track it, and we will act."

I'll almost lay you money a copyeditor is going to come to a screeching halt and try to draw both statements into uniformity. Which will remove a layer of meaning. And which I shall have to stet. So, I think I WILL insert the [sic:] (Latin for 'thus') into the text and hope the copyeditor does not fail to strike THAT printer's notation before it's set in print.

Do you read that the quality of copyediting is going down by the stern...

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Published on August 31, 2010 09:36
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