Editor Interjected My Pet Peeve

inkkognito · May 19, 2008

I could relate to the i.e. and e.g. thread because my personal pet peeve is the misuse of its vs. it's. Got my comp. copies of a magazine the other day, and they inserted little headers in the article. Problem is, one of them misuses "its"...arghhhhhh!! The check made me feel a little better, but it still annoyed me. I can just imagine people reading it and thinking "That writer is a ninny."

Triomferus · May 19, 2008

D'oh! I've got to say, that's my pet peeve as well when I am reading.

mscelina · May 19, 2008

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I ABSOLUTELY. FRIGGING. HATE. THAT.

Every manuscript I see with that particular error on the first page makes me grind my teeth.

And everyday, I see it on the front page of my paper. Drives me bonkers.

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Toothpaste · May 19, 2008

For me it's the misuse of "I" vs "Me". People tend to default to "I" as if it is somehow more formal and proper, when in reality many times it ought to be "Me". In fact this so frustrated me that the climax of my book (Alex), is centered around that very mistake.

Also can't stand the general misuse of apostrophes.

JoeEkaitis · May 19, 2008

Definately some valid gripe's hear.

HeronW · May 19, 2008

then & than, next or rather *grinding teeth*

Matera the Mad · May 19, 2008

GAAAAHHHH!

Lemme at the SOB. Just five minutes. Please. I'll bring my own crowbar and other blunts.

Bartholomew · May 19, 2008

Matera the Mad said:
GAAAAHHHH!

Lemme at the SOB. Just five minutes. Please. I'll bring my own crowbar and other blunts.

Perhaps you could settle for a tone e-mail?

dpaterso · May 19, 2008

Question is, did you let the editor know, and share your thoughts on readers thinking it's your fault? Maybe the next issue should carry one of those tiny little editorial apology boxes you find somewhere around page 23.

-Derek

inkkognito · May 20, 2008

I figure I'll let it pass this month since I'm hoping to establish this mag. as a regular market. If something similar happens next time, I plan to bring it up (that is, if they buy my next article...I haven't got a yay or nay on it yet).

Willowmound · May 20, 2008

Toothpaste said:
For me it's the misuse of "I" vs "Me". People tend to default to "I" as if it is somehow more formal and proper, when in reality many times it ought to be "Me".

That's my one too.

ATP · May 20, 2008

Hmmm...interjected. Interesting word that. Had to check the dictionary for what I thought the word ought to have been-no, not at all. Thesaurus? Same. Interjected it is. I'll have to remember this one.

inkkognito · May 20, 2008

Interesting...piqued my curiousity.

Wordnet.princeton.edu says interject is "to insert between other elements" so I'm technically okay since the pet peeve was inserted between my pristine paragraphs!

JoeEkaitis · May 20, 2008

A reporter for a big-city newspaper covered a month in the life of an all-male police academy class and was horrified to find that the female style editor had changed all of his third person masculine references to the all-inclusive "His or her" and "He or she". When he questioned why a story about a bridal show wasn't subjected to the same butchery, with the third person feminine references left unchanged, the style editor said "That would be absurd."

Judg · May 20, 2008

JoeEkaitis said:
Definately some valid gripe's hear.

You are really out to push all my buttons, aren't you? Now behave!

JoeEkaitis · May 20, 2008

Judg said:
You are really out to push all my buttons, aren't you? Now behave!

Your right. But I'll stop now. You're buttons have been pushed enough.

Oh, and could you tell the tour group we have them confirmed on the next flight out? There waiting over their by they're luggage.

Judg · May 20, 2008

What tour group?

talkwrite · May 20, 2008

Yikes!
I hate that too. I limit sending those clips out with a query fearing being blamed for the errors.

JoeEkaitis · May 20, 2008

Judg said:
What tour group?

You ask to many questions!

Shweta · May 20, 2008

JoeEkaitis said:
Definately some valid gripe's hear.

"...e.g. you guys make sense."

GAH at that editor. Smite smite, I say.

Devil Ledbetter · May 20, 2008

Toothpaste said:
For me it's the misuse of "I" vs "Me". People tend to default to "I" as if it is somehow more formal and proper, when in reality many times it ought to be "Me". In fact this so frustrated me that the climax of my book (Alex), is centered around that very mistake.

Also can't stand the general misuse of apostrophes.

Do you mean your editors inserted an I/me error into your climax? Gah!

I hate when people say or write "myself" because they're clueless on whether to use "I" or "me" and seem to think "myself" makes them sound Important.

"That effort will by headed up by Jim and myself."

I snicker up my sleeve at the myselfers.

Shweta · May 20, 2008

Devil Ledbetter said:
Do you mean your editors inserted an I/me error into your climax? Gah!

No. she is referring to a transcendent moment of total awesome in her book. But read it cause I'd hate to spoiler it

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