My current author's work represents a quantum leap downward into the stylistic netherworld, to depths even my worst writers to date don't even know exist.
He is, quite literally, an explorer and worthy of a Guinness World Record.
He has ignored with the wild abandon known only to the most adventurous among humankind, consistency in every possible way it can applied to a written work.
I am, for this project, not an editor, but a sanitary engineer.
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Friday, May 14, 2010
Friday, May 7, 2010
If I ruled the world . . .
There would be much greater use of acronyms without the initial spelling out. After all, don't we pretty much know, for example, what NATO, CIA, FBI, and the UN stand for.
First on my Official List of Acronyms would be AQ. In a quick scan of a new editing project, I have already seen: al Qaeda, Al Qaeda, al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda, al Qaida, Al Qaida, al-Qaida, and Al-Qaida.
In case you're wondering, the book was written by one author, not a group of them.
First on my Official List of Acronyms would be AQ. In a quick scan of a new editing project, I have already seen: al Qaeda, Al Qaeda, al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda, al Qaida, Al Qaida, al-Qaida, and Al-Qaida.
In case you're wondering, the book was written by one author, not a group of them.
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