{"id":209,"date":"2025-04-16T15:10:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T15:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/the-editor-as-besserwisser\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T15:10:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T15:10:57","slug":"the-editor-as-besserwisser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/the-editor-as-besserwisser\/","title":{"rendered":"The Editor as <i>Besserwisser<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">We need editors, but too many an editor is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelocal.de\/20190122\/german-word-of-the-day-der-besserwisser\">Besserwisser<\/a>. The editorial know-it-all <em>knows better<\/em> than the author what he wants to say and how it ought to be said. At this point I hurl choice epithets.&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">I offer a more measured response in <a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/the-paltry-mentality-of-the-copy?utm_source=publication-search\">The Paltry Mentality of the Copy Editor<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We need editors, but too many an editor is a Besserwisser. The editorial know-it-all knows better than the author what he wants to say and how it ought to be said. At this point I hurl choice epithets.&#0160;&#0160; I offer a more measured response in The Paltry Mentality of the Copy Editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-reading-and-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}