Ed Absurdum

I edit manuscripts for a scholarly press.~~I used to blog under the pseudonym Ed Absurdum. I now use my real name because I dislike anonymity. And I like the sound of "nonanonymous.~~I don't write about dangling modifiers or other boring trivia, and I don't do "haha, I found a typo." I'm not with the grammar police.~~If I criticize an author, that doesn't mean I disagree with them or find everything they write unacceptable.~~Opinions expressed here aren't necessarily those of my employer.

Thursday, July 25, 2013

True story about the author of a scholarly book

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In order to preserve the anonymity of the author I'm rolling my eyes about, I'm changing the wording, I'm pretending the famous ...
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Thursday, June 27, 2013

Dangling modifiers

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In "about me and this blog" (left margin), I say that because dangling modifiers are boring, I'm not going to write about them...
Wednesday, February 6, 2013

An ambiguous phrase, and my personal encounter with a zombie

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More dismaying than my ignorance of zombie culture is the willfulness of that ignorance. Nevertheless, I was entranced when I noticed that W...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Not to mention Cousin Therefore and Uncle Unless

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The problem with letting an algorithm choose the keywords for your article. This is from the end of Noam Scheiber, "The Partner," ...
Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Ownership, singularity, and frustration

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The manuscript editor who works in an office full of other manuscript editors will sometimes get to read a professional newsletter that a co...
Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Possible poorly chosen exemplary quotation in the OED

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A relative from the left coast was going to visit my greater metro area on the third coast and wrote to me that she was going to do some mus...
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Sunday, April 22, 2012

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The publication date and time (Blogger lets you schedule in advance, and it's very nice), as well as the gender of the pronouns, were c...
Friday, April 20, 2012

Authorial oracularity

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Tuesday, I jobbed a book manuscript out to a freelancer who will be working under my supervision [ chortle ]. The acquiring editor received ...
Thursday, January 5, 2012

Verbal stuff that I like: New Hampshire primary edition

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From Walter Shapiro, "Can Rick Santorum Pull Off an Upset in New Hampshire?," New Republic , posted 1/5/12 : But it will take a da...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Adventures with adverbs (2nd of 3): hopefully

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It’s been a while since I posted part 1 of the Adventures with Adverbs series. Real life kept intervening. Besides, I kept on not going to t...
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