In all seriousness, my biggest piece of advice for both writers and editors is to get in the habit of looking up unfamiliar and uncommon words and phrases, even if you think you know what it means and how it should be styled.https://twitter.com/inkydojikko/status/1361530901562224643 …
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There are few greater sins for an editor than editing an error into someone's work, so I spend a lot of time checking anything I'm not 1000% confident in. English is weird and I end up doing deep dives into ambiguous things, which is how the GameSpot style guide got to 17 pages.
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Sometimes I check the AP Stylebook for a word and I can't figure out why they style it a certain way, so I try to look up the justification, and that's how I end up in a one-sided fight with the AP about something like "bite-size"
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That one actually made it into the GameSpot style guide because we decided that AP's insistence on using "bite-size" is actually disgusting so we use "bite-sized" (although I don't think it's actually come up in practice yet)
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The reasoning is that -sized is for measurable sizes while -size refers to an overall size category, like child-size furniture. You could argue that the size of a bite is a category of size rather than a specific measurement but we decided No
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I have completely lost the plot here but I guess I just think language is really interesting and fun, and all this makes me a better editor, because googling a word I wasn't sure about led me to a common misspelling that I'm now able to identify and fix
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okay but i'm absolutely online for long tangents about the use-cases of words and one-sided fights with AP
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I have answers for all those questions and morepic.twitter.com/yH7Cfir9BT
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