Can we get an Elements Of Style thread in here?

still one of my favorite books. i think i will re-read.

anyone have the illustrated version?

http://tinyurl.com/cxpsuj
^^^hated her in school and hate her even more for getting to do this

why would you want the illustrated version? (not being a jerk, serious question) i have the normal version and look at it sometimes but it's not my favorite book ever. this shit kinda bothers me increasingly the more editing i have to do, nitpickiness about english :-\ not because i'm bad at it but i feel like, who cares. bleh

i would want it for nostalgia bc i love the reg version a lot.
i also have nytimes and ap stylebooks on my shelf.
i have mla but fuck that shit.
i should get chicago i guess.

i mean for some reason i equate wanting the illustrated elements of style with my desire for this.

i only do it for lol review. we use chicago as a last resort after "the bluebook: a uniform system of citation" and "texas law review manual on usage and style" which is so bad and i'm not sure why it exists

yeah gosh why would you consult anything from texas!!!?!??!!

it tells you when to capitalize "supreme court" :-\

something i managing-edited was just published and i overlooked that "honing in" should be "homing in" because that's a dumb phrase either way. i don't feel bad though.

no regrets

well i think it's just terrible.

no one's gonna read it anyway, seriously

if we can't have d&g, we will bring it where 'ere we go.

t do you have the turabian? i like that one but it's not useful to me anymore

i think i will prob get chi man someday, maybe when i graduate. but i write a lot at work and i haven't felt a real need for it. also when i read stuff the attorneys at work have written i feel bad for their clients because it's usually pretty lol shitty. i can't tell if they're bad writers or just rushed/tired but it's like they've never looked any kind of style guide :(((((

lol yeah my old atty bosses were so excited at my writing skillz it was kinda sad.
in my case, it was that they were mostly all scientist types and verbal stuff was just not their strong point, so they were happy to have me make them sound eloquent.
i do not have turabian! i really won't be writing any more papers or theses after this one and mla is the department standard. i like styles, though.

oh i forgot i also have the economist style guide because my friend gave it to me for my birthday one year bc he knew i was a nerd and also because he moved to australia where they spell things funny.

i feel half-sad about myself when my friends know to give me that stuff. i have "the new webster's grammar guide" because my friend found it somewhere and thought of me. i've never even looked at it though!

yeah i haven't used the economist guide because i am wary of superfluous Us.

i wish jergins had something to add

he's too busy tweeting.

twitter at a wedding in spokane wa after a couple silly things happen, when u need 5 minutes away from the crush of family and a best of the 60s dancefloor, it's a good thing

do u follow s&w's principles of composition when you tweet

maybe i should start doing this.
then again, maybe i shouldn't.

btw wedding tweets were entertaining.

language is gay, just use the words u want

― boner state university (cankles), Monday, March 9, 2009 7:30 PM (4 minutes ago)

mlgay can suck it but i feel our days together are numbered so \(^_^)/

happy birthday EOS

i feel compelled to say here that i have at best mixed feelings abt elements of style

yeah :-\

editing makes me wanna barf

i will do it
for a price

*barfs*

this author is an idiot and i hate him

i'm trying to decide/remember if i've missed your bold controversial statements that you don't really mean. help me out someone, do i...did i?

ilu jergins <3

jk :)

anyone have the illustrated version?

yah dude, I have this. the illustrations are cute, and big ups to the editors for modernizing the text a bit and correcting some of the early 20th c. gender bias. however, this

By the time this paragraph sees print, psyched, nerd, ripoff, dude, geek and funky
will be the words of yesteryear.

...is practically hate speech, and I advise you to do a lot of soul-searching before buying this edition.

i like a little old-fashioned gender bias in my style guides

it's more real

gender-neutral "he/she" "s/he" "(s)he" pronouns are TEDIOUS and BAD, I admit. I don't remember if the style guide sticks up for them or not.

zie

I once suggested to LJ that he read this book