Only lately?
Really, only lately. At least, none of my editors ever seemed to care one way or the other. Where I've begun hearing the grumblings are for editors for e-publishers.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Delurking 1: Because we don't always check our e-mail.
Barb - Oct 04, 2009 1:41:06 pm PDT #368 of 3094
“Not dead yet!”
ehab - Oct 04, 2009 1:41:35 pm PDT #369 of 3094
...all my words have been taken by my work. - Mala
I guess the two spaces thing dates me as I learned to type on a typewriter and have never successfully broken the habit of two spaces; I now live in fear of posting more than a sentence here, expect poorly punctuated run on sentences henceforth.
Hil R. - Oct 04, 2009 1:47:55 pm PDT #370 of 3094
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I have never gotten out of the habit of two spaces after a period, either, and it was only within the past few years that I ever heard there was debate. In high school, some teachers would take off points for assignments turned in with only one space after each period.
Amy - Oct 04, 2009 1:50:38 pm PDT #371 of 3094
Because books.
Oooh, I hate that too, but I set a custom template for my Word docs, so I rarely have to deal with it.
Teach me!
Steph L. - Oct 04, 2009 1:50:52 pm PDT #372 of 3094
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
I now live in fear of posting more than a sentence here
Oh, don't! Seriously. For all the editors/writers here, I've never seen anyone lay a grammar smackdown on anyone else. The serial comma debate is just good-natured heckling between nerds.
And even the editors/writers here don't have flawless grammar when posting. God knows *I* don't.
davers - Oct 04, 2009 1:51:16 pm PDT #373 of 3094
Yeah, well....
Kevin, which Prime Minister and why didn't it stick?
Dana - Oct 04, 2009 1:51:49 pm PDT #374 of 3094
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Typos are why we have the edit function. If they drive you nuts, you can fix them. If not, that's fine too.
-t - Oct 04, 2009 1:52:12 pm PDT #375 of 3094
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I used to automatically do the two hits to the spacebar, but my current keyboards feel so different from typewriters that the muscle memory has been overridden.
Barb - Oct 04, 2009 1:52:50 pm PDT #376 of 3094
“Not dead yet!”
Teach me!
As soon as I remember, I'll tell you!
Steph L. - Oct 04, 2009 1:54:26 pm PDT #377 of 3094
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
We have a massive, multi-page macro at work that covers all the really common things that authors do that violate our house style -- lots of minutiae (like no periods in academic degrees -- MD, PhD, etc.), but that's our thing. We just run it first before we ever start editing.