{"id":8396,"date":"2013-10-30T16:40:09","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T16:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/30\/copy-editor-make-me-out-to-be-a-disease\/"},"modified":"2013-10-30T16:40:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T16:40:09","slug":"copy-editor-make-me-out-to-be-a-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/30\/copy-editor-make-me-out-to-be-a-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Copy Editor Makes Me Out to be a Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dear Dr. Varicella<\/a>:<\/span><\/div>\n
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Attached you will find two PDFs: a copyedited version of your manuscript and a version indicating changes to the original file. This is your final opportunity to make any clarifications or stylistic changes to the manuscript.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
An honest mistake, no doubt, so I won't reveal the names of the editor or the journal.  But it is a little ironic that a copy<\/em> editor would make such a mistake.  It's tough being an editor.  It's a lousy job.  So I want to thank all of the editors out there without whom those of us who publish  would not see our words in print.<\/span><\/div>\n

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The only thing that really gets my goat is political correctness in a copy editor. I vent my spleen in The Paltry Mentality of the Copy Editor<\/a> and Copy Editors and Political Correctness<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Let me end with a bit of praise for the tribe of bloggers. Most people 'massacre' my name and it "pisses me off" in the phraseology of Jeff Dunham's Walter<\/a>; but bloggers almost universally get it right.  No surprise, I suppose:  bloggers are an elite group of highly literate natural-born scribblers.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Dear Dr. Varicella:   Attached you will find two PDFs: a copyedited version of your manuscript and a version indicating changes to the original file. This is your final opportunity to make any clarifications or stylistic changes to the manuscript. An honest mistake, no doubt, so I won't reveal the names of the editor or … Continue reading “Copy Editor Makes Me Out to be a Disease”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-varia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8396","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=8396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}