Editors Unleashed!

thatwordgrrl @ 06:31 pm: Professional Resume Review
Any good ones out there?

thatwordgrrl @ 02:56 pm: Full of something, alright...
"Design full thinking."

I want to get all impactful on this author's ass.

Oh, and also: "Enstrong."

There. I've just embiggened your marketing vocabulary.

thatwordgrrl @ 06:11 pm: Oh. Dear.
An object lesson on not misplacing your modifiers in headlines.

supergee @ 07:12 am: Bird masters bilocation

While standing in Joe's backyard, a large bird with an enormous wingspan floated above us ominously.

--[source suppressed out of mercy]

thatwordgrrl @ 12:41 am: That ws a very manly manuscript...
No periods.

thatwordgrrl @ 11:45 pm: Beware the frumious autocorrect!
Best name change ever!

Also, I call BS on it being "intentional."

[UPDATE: It was intentional.
OK...both as an editor and as somebody who has had to spell her last name for people starting at the age of five - if it was intentional, it's not funny.

I've put up with years of people deliberately misspelling or mispronouncing my last name as a joke. Including teachers and parents of friends.

In fact, it's actually insulting to Cumberbatch. Granted, he's been quoted poking fun at his name, but that's his right. Anybody else is simply being rude. Don't care if it was an "inside joke." Nonregular readers of her column also read the publication, so it makes WaPo look sloppy. In fact, had I edited that piece, I would have not let it go through that way.]

thatwordgrrl @ 12:22 pm: To act or not to act...
Lately, the KiwiEditor has been giving me lots of academic papers in the area of business organizational studies.

And there's one thing that's driving me nutsy. Many of them use the word "actors" to indicate not just individuals, but organizations. So should it be "actors who" or "actors that"? There seems to be no consistency.

My gut says it should be "actors that," because the category covers both people and things, but I'd like some outside input.

thatwordgrrl @ 06:58 pm: Why I can't get a full-time job
I'm 'a luxury.'

If that's true, why does my bank account not feel terribly luxurious?

smofbabe @ 10:18 pm: Tell Us What You Really Think
Comic Sans Speaks Out (Thanks to supergee)

(Do not click if you are offended by curse words)

carbonel @ 05:23 pm: Sally Rand did not adopt Sammy Davis, Jr.
And to be fair, the Wikipedia entry doesn't actually say she did. "She was deeply in debt at her death, and according to Rand's adopted son, Sammy Davis, Jr. stepped in and wrote a $10,000 check which took care of Rand's expenses." Though if you have a comma before "Jr.," you should have one after as well -- and there's your unintentionally misleading statement.

At least one person on the Internet did misunderstand the situation. According to this article, her son's name is Sean.

What I'll probably edit the sentence to, unless someone has a better suggestion: "Rand was deeply in debt at her death; her adopted son reported Sammy Davis Jr. stepped in and wrote a $10,000 check to cover expenses."