Mededitor

@Mededitor

As a medical editor, language - usage - lexicography - culture - memes - all meet someplace. And that place appears to be my desk.

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Joined March 2008
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    18 Mar 2016

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  2. 5 hours ago

    Had to turn down a freelance copyediting job offer: 62 chapters plus front matter. Rate: $4520. Word count: 542,000. Deadline: 4 weeks. Medical textbook. Even working full time, 10 hours a day for 30 straight, it'd be nearly impossible.

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  3. 7 hours ago

    Edit: "And with every single new project..." ---> every new project Avoid trite and hackneyed phrasing.

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  4. 9 hours ago

    Attending ACES2018 in Chicago? Schedule now available here (bookmark it on your phone):

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  5. 10 hours ago

    What's puzzling me about the stock market is the way it reacts to anything the Big Fat Liar says as if it's absolutely going to happen. "OMG! Giant trade war with China!" When in fact, that's at least 6 months down the road.

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  6. 10 hours ago

    The "foreign language effect" describes a phenomenon such that L2 speakers don't behave the same as when they are speaking in L1:

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  7. 13 hours ago

    Shorter RT: "OK, so yeah, our trolls have bad grammar. But you mean liberals are bullying them..."

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  8. 14 hours ago

    I wonder how the Wall Street Journal is choosing to remember this historic moment, 50 years later... "Martin Luther King: ‘We Can’t Keep On Blaming the White Man’" By JASON L. RILEY

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  9. Apr 3

    Hey Twitter pals, in June I'll be in Santa Fe and could use suggestions for epic restaurants downtown. I like Tex Mex.

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  10. Apr 3

    Edit tip: If you go to the trouble of creating an acronym for Your Clever Phrase (YCP), then the time you need YCP, use YCP.

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  11. Apr 3

    Lemme get this straight: Scott Pruitt has been staying in a luxury DC condo for $50 a night. The condo is owned by an oil lobbyist who works for a Canadian pipeline company responsible for the largest land spill in U.S. history. And Pruitt approved an expansion of that pipeline.

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  12. Apr 3

    They Write Headlines: ‘Facebook is the new cigarettes.'

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  13. Apr 3

    Quote of the Day: Media mogul Sumner Redstone, who maintains voting control over CBS and Viacom, has resorted to communicating through an iPad preloaded with audio clips of his voice saying "yes," "no" and "fuck you."

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  14. Apr 3

    "Please help me poke some holes in the hull of my ship."

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  15. Apr 3

    Spelling tip for Spanky.

    Jason Bourne making fun of the Orange Boy mistaking bourne for borne.
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  16. Apr 3

    Edit note: The plural of "apparatus" is apparatus; with variant apparatuses. Although logical, "apparati" doesn't exist.

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  17. Apr 3

    Scientists are growing mini-brains, or "vascularized human neural organoids":

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  18. Apr 3

    Spotify begins trading today on the NYSE, under . Investors will be streaming to add it to their playlists.

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  19. Apr 2

    Yes, I'm watching the Sinclair takeover of the media. "In 2001, the FCC levied a $40,000 fine against Sinclair for illegally controlling Glencairn. Sinclair became a publicly listed company in 1995, while the Smith family retained a controlling interest."

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  20. Apr 2

    Of course Terry Gross had an interview with Steven Bochco. Because of course she did (and it's fabulous).

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  21. Apr 2

    A glimpse of our future: “My life is much easier in prison. I can be myself and breathe, however temporarily."

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