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In the New Yorker...
serious crayons:
I'm reading the Louis Menand one about neoliberalism. Like all his articles, it's good if a little more dense than I would need it to be. But I came upon what I'd forgotten is the weirdest New Yorker verbal eccentricity of all: writing percent as "per cent." For Pete's sake, New Yorker, the AP finally lets us start using a % sign like normal people and you're still not just writing it out but writing two words so we can all contemplate that percent means "per one 100th" which we already know?!
When I was a copywriter, I followed AP style in general but broke it for % because the symbol is just much easier to read and easier to fit in headlines.
Jeff Wrangler:
That one was a little dense.
southendmd:
Thought you might enjoy this: The Curse of the Diaeresis.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-the-diaeresis
Front-Ranger:
Haha, that was entertaining, especially the end.
I used to work for a co?perative and this issue loomed time and time again. :-\
Jeff Wrangler:
Emily Nussbaum's article about Nashville (July 24) is interesting.
At one point, she visits a nightclub called the Lipstick Lounge. I like this little self-deprecating self-reference:
"Call me basic, but I had a good time: in Manhattan, a slovenly middle-aged woman in jeans can't walk into a nightclub, order a Diet Coke, and go dancing for free."
I never imagined a writer for TNY would be slovenly.
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