thinking about the time my mom started beef with The New Yorker because she sent a rude letter to the editor about how they use too many commas and the copy editor wrote her an even ruder letter back - ThreadSky

amybrown.xyz • 30 days ago

thinking about the time my mom started beef with The New Yorker because she sent a rude letter to the editor about how they use too many commas and the copy editor wrote her an even ruder letter back

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berlynsky.bsky.social•29 days ago

I want those problems back in our lives.

tommylamb.bsky.social•30 days ago

You take your chances arguing with the editor.

joshuatanzer.bsky.social•30 days ago

I had an exchange like this with the New York Times about a terrible thing they do.

rous-are-real.bsky.social•30 days ago

Welcome to, the Christopher WALKEN, school of GRAMMAR

shootthisway.bsky.social•30 days ago

Should have had a comma after school. This is clearly following SSE formatting (Shatner Standard, ENgLISH!”)

stardustmomma.bsky.social•30 days ago

😂😂😂

peter23.bsky.social•30 days ago

Someone who works there told me as a joke that they have a salt shaker full of commas and they shake it over pieces they’re working on.

andyoregon.bsky.social•30 days ago

Oh please tell us you have the letters!

talleststone.bsky.social•30 days ago

I’ll bet it’s somewhere on microfiche.

boriskamenik.bsky.social•30 days ago

Does your mom have an opinion on the silly little umlaut-points above double vowels?

abbendectomy.bsky.social•30 days ago

I'm not master of grammar, don't get me wrong, but how do you think she'd feel about the structure of your OP, by traditional writing standards?

Also, what did she do for a profession? Writer? Teacher?

kdhuck.bsky.social•30 days ago

Sounds like my interaction with Quiznos back when they had the disgusting dancing rodents with teeth ad!

talleststone.bsky.social•30 days ago

I wrote to the Food Network 20 years ago because Rachel Ray’s dirty fingernails were grossing me out. 😝

ig.ht•30 days ago

To whom it concerns,,,,,,,,,,,

burghpunk.bsky.social•30 days ago

I don’t want to come across as being against your mom here but that copy editor lived the fucking dream and should have a statue built in their honor

cpo10za.bsky.social•30 days ago

This is reminiscent of the “exclamation point!!” episode of Seinfeld.

cpo10za.bsky.social•30 days ago

hotsaucephd.bsky.social•30 days ago

Speaking of NYer peeves: do they spell out all numbers bc they pay writers per word?

larahart.bsky.social•30 days ago

AP style — spell out numbers less than 10, use numerals for 10 or more.

hotsaucephd.bsky.social•30 days ago

Yeah, NYer spells out numbers much larger than 10 😀

tappinlisa.bsky.social•30 days ago

If it was about Oxford commas, I'm afraid I'll have to side with the copy editor. 😄

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