Is Editing Necessary?
Posted in Abbeville Gallery, Books and Publishing, New York, Style Points on Feb 12th, 2009
That’s the implicit question being raised these days in a prickly debate over English-language grammar, spelling, and style conventions. The latest excuse for the debate, which gets revived periodically by bored linguists and commentators (so far to little effect), is the rise of such Internet phenomena as blogs, self-publishing, instant messaging, the “lolspeak” argot, etc. [...]
