Literate and Festive (up to a point)
Sep. 29th, 2005 06:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustI haven't been writing much here, lately, since the Literature Festival has started and my writing is going on elsewhere: ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
durham_rambler and I sponsor the Festival by maintaining its web site, and one thing we do is produce reports of all the events (or as many of them as we can). Is this worth the effort? Sometimes: but that's a big question, and this is just a small post.
One thing that was left on the cutting room floor when I put together my piece about last night's event was a story Christopher Brookmyre told about copy editors (a subject on whichpapersky has been venting lately).
It was - as it so often is - the house style that numbers up to ten were expressed as words, not numerals. But he wanted to tell the joke which begins: "There are 10 kinds of people in the world...". And yes, the copy editor "corrected" that to "There are ten kinds of people in the world...". Make that 11 kinds: those who understand binary, those who don't - and copy editors.
durham_rambler and I sponsor the Festival by maintaining its web site, and one thing we do is produce reports of all the events (or as many of them as we can). Is this worth the effort? Sometimes: but that's a big question, and this is just a small post.One thing that was left on the cutting room floor when I put together my piece about last night's event was a story Christopher Brookmyre told about copy editors (a subject on which
papersky has been venting lately).It was - as it so often is - the house style that numbers up to ten were expressed as words, not numerals. But he wanted to tell the joke which begins: "There are 10 kinds of people in the world...". And yes, the copy editor "corrected" that to "There are ten kinds of people in the world...". Make that 11 kinds: those who understand binary, those who don't - and copy editors.
