Main Discussion Area > Stream of Consciousness
Copyedit 101
urth:
Since we have two copy editors in our midst and several other grammar geeks, I thought this thread was warranted.
From the front page of SFGate, in the blurb for their lead (about ramen noodles):
Jeff Yang pays tribute to this food which serves billions of people every year in the wake of its inventor Momofuku Ando's death.
princessofcairo:
--- Quote from: "urth" ---Since we have two copy editors in our midst and several other grammar geeks, I thought this thread was warranted.
From the front page of SFGate, in the blurb for their lead (about ramen noodles):
Jeff Yang pays tribute to this food which serves billions of people every year in the wake of its inventor Momofuku Ando's death.
--- End quote ---
good thing he only died once!
Alicat:
I'm still driven crazy when I get email or anything in writing from an adult who misuses hear/here, there/they're/their. Happens more frequesntly than it should. It really lowers my estimation of the intelligence of the writer.
RGMike:
I didn't know where else to put this, but it is language-related, so...
Is "gi-normous" now officially a real word? I've heard it used in 3 different commercials lately, and just now an astronomer, no less, used it on "Countdown" (Keith Olbermann was asking him about that big supernova that's in the news).
urth:
--- Quote from: "RGMike" ---I didn't know where else to put this, but it is language-related, so...
Is "gi-normous" now officially a real word? I've heard it used in 3 different commercials lately, and just now an astronomer, no less, used it on "Countdown" (Keith Olbermann was asking him about that big supernova that's in the news).
--- End quote ---
Sad to say, but I think it is. I found it listed on the Oxford dictionary site.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
Go to full version