BostonEditGirl

hanging out at ACES 2019

[BostonEditGirl @boston_sunshine]

Hey @DoorDash , I tried you once a few weeks ago and my 30 minute order took 90. Used resulting credit tonight, my dasher bailed an hour ago but didn’t tell you, so now your service guy says oops sorry we’ll find another. Comedy of errors. No dinner tonight, sounds like. Wow.

[BostonEditGirl @boston_sunshine]

@MatthiasFripp Ok, but mass nouns take singular verbs and pronouns, right? So what does it matter, practically speaking?

[BostonEditGirl @boston_sunshine]

Data is now singular. Audience says “oooh” #ACESAPstyle #aces2019

[BostonEditGirl @boston_sunshine]

@AvivaGoldmann pic.

[Laura Cameron @AuditorsEditor]

Data takes singular verb! Thank you! @APStylebook #ACES2019 #ACESAPstyle

[BostonEditGirl @boston_sunshine]

@KeriMorgret Check out @ACESCorpusLinguistics tomorrow at 1:15!

[BostonEditGirl @boston_sunshine]

Mod: “We all accept that language changes over time, we just don’t accept that language changes in our own time.” #ACESStyleJam #aces2019

[BostonEditGirl @boston_sunshine]

@KeriMorgret There’s a session about this tomorrow!

[BostonEditGirl @boston_sunshine]

Buzzfeed: “How do you say someone put a sad face on something? They sadded it? I don’t remember what we came up with, and it’s not like anyone uses Facebook anymore anyway.” (Audience laughter) #ACESStyleJam #aces2019

[BostonEditGirl @boston_sunshine]

Buzzfeed re: concerns that ��Middle America” might be jolted by an inclusive term, but “that’s great, they can google - they don’t even have to google! Just type it in your browser! ... we want to be that change.” #ACESStyleJam #aces2019

[BostonEditGirl @boston_sunshine]

Moderator musing that it will take decades to untie the knots created by space limitations that no longer matter online, like how MW described etymology in print. #ACESStyleJam #aces2019

[BostonEditGirl @boston_sunshine]

Chicago SG editor discussing the MLA updates on citation formats, explaining he makes sure students know that how to punctuate volume and pages in a source citation doesn’t really matter; that’s copy-editing. “What matters is strict accuracy.” #ACESStyleJam #aces2019

[BostonEditGirl @boston_sunshine]

@_graham_colton @ona_usfsp Eventually....

[BostonEditGirl @boston_sunshine]

NYT doesn’t expect to change its guidance on whether to include honorifics any time soon. (With a disclaimer that he’s not the final arbiter.) #ACESStyleJam #aces2019

[BostonEditGirl @boston_sunshine]

NYT rules don’t change as fast as many people think they should. “It may be months, years that the discussion goes on. The changes happen at a more glacial pace than I think most people would like to see.” #ACESStyleJam #aces2019

[BostonEditGirl @boston_sunshine]

Swaziland changed its name in a haphazard way to eSwatini, which delayed the AP Style Guide update. (What is the language called now? Its citizens?) Couldn’t get an answer for quite some time. #ACESStyleJam #aces2019

[BostonEditGirl @boston_sunshine]

Ugh, typo. At ACES. How embarrassing.

[BostonEditGirl @boston_sunshine]

AP Style Guide historically didn’t want to be out in front, but to a lesser degree now. “More interested in being in front of the pack... but it could literally be a turn-off” for some people if the style doesn’t matches their expectations. #ACESStyleJam #aces2019 #literally

[BostonEditGirl @boston_sunshine]

“I’m surprised it’s called an Oxford comma; it could be called a Chicago comma,” because the Chicago Style Guide is so old and conservative, says the Chicago Style Guide editor. “I call it that to myself.” #ACESStyleJam #aces2019

[BostonEditGirl @boston_sunshine]

“Random House editors impose a serial comma without asking authors.” Speaker paused to wait for a gasp, which did not occur. #ACESStyleJam #aces2019

[BostonEditGirl @boston_sunshine]

Buzzfeed editors, despite having a style guide, are constantly asking each other “would you put a hyphen here?” aka the same conversation all teams of editors have every day, and which the AP Style Guide update will not help at all. #ACES2019 #ACESStyleJam #ACESAPStyle

[BostonEditGirl @boston_sunshine]

@marcunderscore5 @MarkBowder Not to mention that a panini is incredibly common - and understood to an educated audience as being fine - in the US.