Petty Revenge
2/3/06 07:53![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
madrobinsIt is a truth, universally acknowledged, that one does not piss off one's copy editor. I mean, why risk it?
What the Onion doesn't seem to understand, however, is that this is not comic exaggeration: there are copy editors out there who would leave out a hyphen to punish a wayward author for her unseemly use of commas or her unreasonable privileging of "grey" over "gray." Not that I've ever had one personally, of course. But I did work in Production for a couple of years and, in the words of Ernie Hudson, "I seen shit that'd turn you white." Especially involving the serial comma.
What the Onion doesn't seem to understand, however, is that this is not comic exaggeration: there are copy editors out there who would leave out a hyphen to punish a wayward author for her unseemly use of commas or her unreasonable privileging of "grey" over "gray." Not that I've ever had one personally, of course. But I did work in Production for a couple of years and, in the words of Ernie Hudson, "I seen shit that'd turn you white." Especially involving the serial comma.