Get over it copy editors

[YankeeFan]

Keep moving in my direction.

 

[MileHigh]

Um, no.

The stylebook is a guide, not the bible. It has so many inconsistencies that while it can be taken seriously, it's not the be-all, end-all its editors proclaim it to be. Plus, AP's own writers and editors don't even follow it religiously.

 

[Spartan Squad]

Keep moving in my direction.

Do you have news that wasn't announced 4 years ago?

AP removes distinction between 'over' and 'more than'

 

[da man]

Keep moving in my direction.

Them's fightin' words, hoss.

 

[Slacker]

Keep moving in my direction.

You'd never last a day in a good newsroom, so stop pretending that you can school us.

You're that lame-ass hire that goes out for lunch and doesn't come back. On the first day.

 

[YankeeFan]

Do you have news that wasn't announced 4 years ago?

AP removes distinction between 'over' and 'more than'

Yeah, that was her next tweet. But I’d already posted this, before I saw that.

 

[Slacker]

Yeah, that was her next tweet. But I’d already posted this, before I saw that.

You're cherry-picking again. And playing dodgeball again.

You dummy.

 

[Spartan Squad]

Aaaaaaand we have a db

AP Stylebook: "More than" and "over" now mean the same thing

 

[Deskgrunt50]

Once upon a time, I would die on the hills that are over/more than, RBI/RBIs and a few others. Not as much now.

But you can rip the keyboard out of my cold, dead hands before I leave a wrong-facing apostrophe.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Four years ago, YF. I thought you had your finger on the pulse of the journalistic world better than that.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Plus it belongs in the journalism forum.

And from the previous thread:

The long-gone and not-at-all-lamented DyePack is trolling people on Twitter over this issue. ****ing lame asshole.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Frankly, as copy editing goes, I'd put DyePack's credentials up against a lot of people here.

 

[expendable]

How do I know this news is four-years-old? The tweet refers to copy editors. Nobody has them anymore.

 

[Spartan Squad]

Plus it belongs in the journalism forum.

And from the previous thread:

There's some quality responses in the thread from four years ago. Have I mentioned we had a thread on this four years ago? YF, did I mention?

 

[Slacker]

Get over it, Coffee Boy.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

Guys, we already had a thread on this. It was more than three years ago.

 

[Deskgrunt50]

How do I know this news is four-years-old? The tweet refers to copy editors. Nobody has them anymore.

Sad and true.

 

[Deskgrunt50]

Frankly, as copy editing goes, I'd put DyePack's credentials up against a lot of people here.

Did NOT expect a DyePack reference. Well done. And I’ve been here longer than I thought. /longtime lurker/

 

[Neutral Corner]

Some nice retorts in the comment thread to that tweet. Made my wife laugh - she used to do QC and copy editing back in the day.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

@YankeeFan, if you're going to tell copy editors to get over it, at least put a comma after "it."