Pun-hit wonder
The most difficult, yet rewarding task involved in being a copy editor is surprisingly not copy editing.
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Tag Archives: copy
AP Stylebook, Daily Cal style changes since 2016 election
Style guides can be seen as part of the larger discourse surrounding issues we face in our day-to-day lives, but they also reflect how far institutionalized language rules still have to go to keep up with the times.
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The rhetoric of political spectacle
The president’s use of language, whether in a speech or a tweet, inundates our politics with polarizing personal drama.
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Not quite bilingual
As is the case with many second-generation students, 12 years of English-centric education has made me fluent in one language at the expense of the other.
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From my high school newsroom to the Daily Cal
Never have I ever quoted “the more you know” meme so consistently.
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Heckin’ bamboozled
Doggo memes have literally created their own language, and for the most part, people between the ages of 12 and 30 understand and sometimes use this new language.
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Who gives a [email protected]#$ about an Oxford comma
The hardest part of learning another language isn’t memorizing new words for different concepts, but learning the often strange and confusing syntax of a new language
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Pro-grammar: A copy editor on computer science
A combination of sleep deprivation and my first shifts at the Daily Cal have led me to a theory more intriguing than the Illuminati: copy editors make excellent coders.
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Alum? Alumna? Alumni?
Even now as I write this, the word processor suggests that I change “alumna” to “alumni.” If you’re not a copy editor, you might be saying, “Who cares?”
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‘But do you remember it?’
“OK but hear me out: I get that we’re copy editors and all, but why do we have to be like that when we see anything spelled incorrectly?”
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