When Editors have had Enough

legalismSuddenly in a grumpy mood, Steve the Editor wants to remind everyone (despite knowing he will once again be ignored):

1. Do NOT type two spaces between sentences. That has never, EVER, been appropriate anywhere except on typewriters with monospaced fonts. So just quit it. Now.

2. An elipsis within a sentence has 3 periods…not 4. Put the fourth at the end of the sentence.

3. Don’t underline text, especially in email or on the web. Underlining indicates a hyperlink, which people can click to go someplace else. On a typewriter, to emphasize something you had two options: underline, and all-caps. But now you have other options: bold, italics, larger font size. If it’s a book title or something else that would be underlined on a typewriter, use italics.

4. Don’t put apostrophe’s in plural’s. I mean, just stop it, okay? You’re embarrassing yourself.

There are plenty of other literary transgressions, children, for which I could castigate you. But I’ll stop here.

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