Not Your Gramma's Grammar

[Benjamin Lukoff]

Not if some people got their way --
http://theslot.blogspot.com/2008/02/case-for-copy-editing.html

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Brenda Lester wrote:

> The NY TIMES has copy editors?
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> Doug Harris <cats22 at FRONTIERNET.NET> wrote:  ---------------------- Information from the mail header -----------------------
> Sender: American Dialect Society
> Poster: Doug Harris
> Subject: Not Your Gramma's Grammar
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> A cut line (photo caption) on the front page of the NY/Region of today's
> NY Times:
> >Jacob Rivera, 15, near his apartment in the Bronx, who was convicted of
> assault, receives intensive therapy as part of his new sentence.<
> ---
> The topic of typos has arisen here again recently. Many such, as
> has been noted, can be excused by time and other pressures. It's
> not so easy, though, to 'justify' subject-object twice (by commas) removed
> disasters such as this one.
> What makes it worse, this wasn't a breaking-news story, so there should
> have been sufficient time to appropriately copy-edit it.
> (the other) doug
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