Book ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Elsewhere, Mobile is flooded out. Storm surge remains at 10 feet or so.
Jackson's water treatment plants have lost power; the mayor has advised people to limit water use to essential purposes only.
500K people in MS without power, 150K in Alabama, 750K+ in Louisiana.
And, in today's oddest lede:
Familiar landmarks destroyed
At DeBuys Road at U.S. 90., the Olive Garden and Red Lobster restaurants were obliterated.
I guess that's the best you can do for "landmarks" in Biloxi-Gulfport.
lede
Ah, I haven't seen it spelled that way in YEARS! Takes me back to the good old days of j-school. I still spell "head" as in "subhead," etc., H-E-D. It freaks my co-workers out.
I have, however, dropped "graf" (for "paragraph") in favor of the paragraph symbol itself. It's sleek.
Ah, I haven't seen it spelled that way in YEARS!
It's what I get for hanging out with newspaper folks.
¶¶¶¶¶¶!!!1!
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Yes!!!!
When editing a manuscript (abbreviated "mss.") the Luddite way, which we do in my office (and I dearly love editing the way we do, pen to paper), making that little ¶ makes me unaccountably happy.
I'm easy to please, when it comes right down to it.
t edit Heh. I just thought "OMGWTF¶¶¶¶!!!"
you should teach middle school writing, steph. I spend an INORDINATE amount of time making that precise symbol on kid's papers.
¶graph; ?
Oh. Just ¶
I spend an INORDINATE amount of time making that precise symbol on kid's papers.
Try editing a pharmaceutical article written by people whose first (and possibly second) language is NOT English. Some days, as long as they remembered to put a verb in most of the sentences, I don't mind chopping their papers up into paragraphs. But some days, it's like Faulkner -- if his primary languages were Russian and Japanese -- wrote a pharmaceutical article in english.
¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶!
the word has lost all meaning!
¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶ = pure editor porn.
Or, well, maybe just me. I can't claim to be representative of any group, including editors.
Actually, I think the beautiful majestic semicolon is editor porn. See:
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Oh yeah, baby. That's the stuff. Partially separate and partially link my phrases. Oh, yeah.
t edit No, I *don't* actually wonder why I never get laid. Believe me, I *know.* Semicolons and Batman and Macs, oh my!