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In the New Yorker...
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 05, 2017, 04:04:40 pm ---Bravo! Good thinking! :D
"Quotative inversion"? :laugh:
Sorry, but I think that's funny. ::)
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I wish Mary Norris, the aforementioned New Yorker proofreader who has written a book and a bunch of articles and I think even has a TED talk, would address the subject. I looked her book up on Google Books and searched "quotes" and other possible references, but nada.
Yet at some point it must have come up. It's the weirdest thing the New Yorker does. There is widespread distaste for this practice outside the magazine, but nobody seems to know whether it's an actual ban and, if so, why. Why would they refuse so stubbornly to adopt a style that isn't grammatically incorrect and reads much more smoothly?
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on March 05, 2017, 07:31:29 pm ---I wish Mary Norris, the aforementioned New Yorker proofreader who has written a book and a bunch of articles and I think even has a TED talk, would address the subject. I looked her book up on Google Books and searched "quotes" and other possible references, but nada.
Yet at some point it must have come up. It's the weirdest thing the New Yorker does. There is widespread distaste for this practice outside the magazine, but nobody seems to know whether it's an actual ban and, if so, why. Why would they refuse so stubbornly to adopt a style that isn't grammatically incorrect and reads much more smoothly?
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Obstinacy?
Jeff Wrangler:
So I just finished the Russia article (March 6). Depressing and scary but important. ... :(
Jeff Wrangler:
I just now finished the March 6 article about the hedge fund guy who tried to destroy Herbalife.
To me the most interesting thing in the article was this assessment by the author:
"Strikingly, many of the themes and slogans that multilevel-marketing companies favor--lots of gilt, and promises that "we are going to make you rich"--are the same ones employed by Donald Trump, whose pledge to solve Middle America's economic woes helped propel him to the Presidency."
serious crayons:
I can't remember if it was here or elsewhere that I was comparing how Time covers a news issue or event compared to how the New Yorker does. So I finally finished the story about Dylan Roof's trial. It was far more in-depth and contained more cultural context than Time's probably did, but it was mostly pretty straightfoward, so maybe not drastically different from Time's.
But then you get to the final section, basically a long paragraph. Wow. It is devastating. And it never, ever would have been in a Time story (mainly because it involved a first-person anecdote about something the writer experienced after the trial -- I don't think Time does that). I wont's spoil it in case anyone is still planning to read it.
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