I’ll be hitting the road later this afternoon, headed for Minneapolis for the 2009 American Copy Editors Society National Conference.
Can’t make it to conference this year? Check the ACES Web site for resources from speakers and panelists. (Click on Schedule at the top of the page.) Some sessions already a PDF or PowerPoint posted.
Happy editing!
Confession: I’m a nerd who spends her free time building Web sites.
Good, now that we have that out of the way, you can go check out ACES-UNL’s new Web site.
It’s still a work in progress, but I’m happy with what we have so far.
While you’re at it, go visit the national ACES group’s snazzy Web site for our national conference that is sneaking up on us.
We word gurus have a little club. It’s a nice group of people called the American Copy Editors Society. We’re often the people who have duties that our co-workers don’t quite grasp. (Yes, we do more than move some commas and run spell check.) Worse yet, we have talents and make contributions that sometimes our supervisors — the ones who do the hiring and firing — don’t appreciate.
So ACES created a nifty little site, Why Editing Matters. There you can add your own comment about why you think editing is important.
The site is up to 75 comments. And though I wholeheartedly believe in all the serious posts that talk about the value of copy editors’ work behind the scenes, my favorite post isn’t so serious.
But oh lordy is it applicable. So, Post No. 68, why does editing matter?
Because of this dialogue from the movie Clue:
Mrs. White: He even threatened to kill me! In public!
Miss Scarlet: Why would he want to kill you in public?
The Butler: I think she means he threatened, in public, to kill her.
Brilliant. Anyway, go check it out.
AP style lesson of the day:
mph is OK on all references for miles per hour.
mpg is only acceptable on second references; it’s miles per gallon on first.
Why? Because the stylebook says so.
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