For teen!me, this was a purely intellectual exercise; I never felt I'd be allowed to use it. It just made sense. But as an adult author...
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Telling me "you need to decide" on a usage as though I haven't? Already done that? By making the choice I've already made??
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Telling me "make sure it's really clear to readers," okay, but there is literally an explanation RIGHT THERE? Which you haven't flagged?
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Basically, that she went ahead and made the correction, instead of letting YOU decide (as she suggested) was saying "this is wrong"
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It IS condescending and uncool :(
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Um, also, that's a thing you would have discussed with your Editor editor. Why did the copyeditor assume you didn't already think that thru?
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Like, this is the kind of thing that's already been hashed out or thought through long before it gets to copyedits. Why mess with it?
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And self-contradictory! If it's "a thing you need to decide" then CE shouldn't have made (at most) a suggestion, rather than a change.
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Sorry, of course I meant SHOULD have made a suggestion.
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Is there a bad/weird/clueless Copy Editor epidemic going on, or is it down to more reporting and better diagnosis?
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