Tuesday, 16 October 2012

Copy Desk Laws

Griffin's Generalisation on Copy: Check for ellipses and exclamation marks in the first page or two. If you find any, the piece will be bad.


Griffin's Second Generalisation on Copy: If you find properly used semicolons and em-dashes, your task has just become easier.


Griffin's Third Generalisation on Copy: If (a) the page format is set to US Letter in a country where A4 is the default and (b) the default dictionary is US English in a country where UK English is generally used, then (c) the writer just isn't anal enough. Or maybe Microsoft wins after all.


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