Dave MandlThe editors at the FT, a UK paper, may not realize that "welfare" is a loaded word in the US (weaponized mainly by the right) that is generally avoided these days. #copyediting
Not sure how I feel about the use of "premia" as the (Latin-correct) plural of "premium." It was clever when Quentin Crisp referred to the crowds at "football stadia," but this isn't Quentin Crisp. #copyediting #Latin
db Slava Ukraini@belldotbz @futzle #Freelance #copyediting & #proofreading with legal, engineering, culinary, and political comms experience. English degree, Web Publishing certificate, formerly voracious reader, and Trivia Queen. (Canadian) English mother tongue, middling French, improving Spanish, Babydeutsch.
Currently based in the #SoCal desert but my clients are almost all remote anyway. #FediHire.
Stan CareyHere's a strange one:
After a friendly exchange with a former client (I'm a freelance copy-editor and proofreader), I visited their website and found that they now also copy-edit and proofread and are *using my writing, from my website, as their own, on their website*.
Entire sentences and paragraphs are identical. It's been like this for years. And this from someone I helped earn a doctorate.
What to do?
#freelance #work #ethics #plagiarism #proofreading #editing #copyediting #Mastodaoine
NefariousPlotter#Grammar question for fedi editors: what's correct?
find out if any of them IS aware
find out if any of them ARE aware
I thought the tense would depend on"any" but someone else thinks it depends on "them."
Edit: the consensus seems to be for "is" as in "find out if any(one) of them IS aware, which is what I thought but wasn't sure. Thanks to all who answered!
Before lasers were invented, was there a way to tell people you were paying super-close attention to something? #Copyediting
YAMAMOTO TakujiI'm in revising my new historical fantasy's manuscript according to my copyeditor's advises.
Of course, DeepL and Grammarly are remarkable tools for ESL writers. In adition, human editing should be needed for true nuances in high-quality literature.
I don't hire a native check for my ordinaly tooting, but I hire them for publishing (including my self-publishing on web) quality works.
#copyediting #amwriting
Of course, DeepL and Grammarly are remarkable tools for ESL writers. In adition, human editing should be needed for true nuances in high-quality literature.
I don't hire a native check for my ordinaly tooting, but I hire them for publishing (including my self-publishing on web) quality works.
#copyediting #amwriting
Rachel "Red Pen" LapidowThis Sunday, June 1, the episode of The Editor's Half Hour Podcast where I'm interviewed by the awesome Nadia Geagea Pupa drops. I'm so excited for everyone to listen and/or watch it.
I often get questions about how I became a TTRPG editor; thus, I’m reposting an article I wrote last year about my journey. https://lnkd.in/ea-p-TP9. The second was for the Editorial Arts Academy: https://editorialartsacademy.com/2022/08/29/finding-work-as-an-rpg-copyeditor/.
People tend to under-use semicolons (because they're not sure where to use them, or they think using them makes them look like pedants), but this use is totally unnecessary and IMO wrong. #Copyediting
