language blog

In a shocking turn of events, this will be about spoken word poetry — not the movie “It.” The movie “It” is scary, so I have not seen “It,” because I am scared of scary things. Such as “It.”

Next time you start a sentence, whether in paper, on text or out of your own mouth, think about whether that word you’re about to express is alive or dead.

One simple typo that could be found with an easy proofread and would save hours and hours of effort and prevent an immediate rejection letter.

Film would not be film, cannot be film, without the written word.

Subtlety crowns the semicolon as the king of punctuation marks in my book.

As a copy editor, I often find myself thinking about how to apply language and grammar skills to everyday life.

But the funny thing about this job is that the more I learn, the more I understand how little I truly know.

Jump heads suck. They suck so much that it’s been more than nine months since they’ve been abolished in the Daily Cal and I’ve only just recovered enough to write about how awful they are.

The most difficult, yet rewarding task involved in being a copy editor is surprisingly not copy editing.

Style guides can be seen as part of the larger discourse surrounding issues we face in our day-to-day lives, but they also reflect how far institutionalized language rules still have to go to keep up with the times.