Tuesday, 20 March 2012
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Apostrophe-S Not FTW
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Sometimes I scratch my head about the editorial policies at The New Yorker. Recently about a cartoon. Today about the following, which is in an article about current TV shows:“Angry Boys,” with its shaggy, improvisational scenes of humiliation, can be harder to watch than “Archer” ’s naughty vaudeville. Seriously, whacking an apostrophe-s onto a phrase that's already enclosed in quotation marks? In what editorial style guide is this considered a good idea? Would it not have been possible to write this?... than the naughty vaudeville of "Archer."
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