Active verbs pls!
November 11th, 2009
Note to newspaper publishers everywhere: if you announce that you're going to contract out the work of your copy editors, you can expect the memo you issue announcing the decision to be copy edited to within an inch of its life.1
[Via iamcal]
- On the one hand, I understand full well that many of the style guidelines you'd apply to a newspaper article are, strictly speaking, not applicable to an internal memo. On the other hand, I don't doubt that the anonymous copy editor relished every minute of that particular editing job. and I can't say I blame them. ↩
