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textualdevianceI have decided to form G.U.C.E: The Guerilla Union of Copy Editors.
Our motto: "An apostrophe is a terrible thing to waste."
We will roam the English-speaking world with our red pens, correcting flyers, ads and other printed evidence of ugly grammar, spelling and punctuation.
Fear us, ye foes of proper language!*
I'm back home. Well, I was back home last night, then got up to go do class and production today, and now I'm back home again, for three beautiful nights. Ahhhhhhh. Of course, both of my free days will be spent parked in front of my machine, doing research and other shit for my two big class projects.
Seminar today was interesting. I couldn't keep from running off at the mouth. I probably irritated everyone else in the class. But I couldn't help it. The prof started talking about objectivity and the role of journalism in promoting democracy and I just... spewed. He can get a little annoying, and I'm sure most of the class is ready to smack him, but the stuff he talks about is really mind-blowing, because it's the same sort of stuff I've been thinking about myself for years. I'm just so glad this stuff is being specifically taught, now. It's like waking up from a 20-year nightmare of hordes of heartless carrion eaters passing themselves off as journalists.
More developments in the two recent personal filter topics. Will post on those tomorrow. One situation has become *headdesk*-inspiring and the other is at a truce for now. Meh.
Also lots more on my mind about the conference, but I'm going to put a bunch of that in my weekly report for my seminar class, so I'll paste that stuff over here when I'm done with that.
*This random message was brought to you by a flyer from our department that used the phrase "over $10,000."
*facepalm*
Our motto: "An apostrophe is a terrible thing to waste."
We will roam the English-speaking world with our red pens, correcting flyers, ads and other printed evidence of ugly grammar, spelling and punctuation.
Fear us, ye foes of proper language!*
I'm back home. Well, I was back home last night, then got up to go do class and production today, and now I'm back home again, for three beautiful nights. Ahhhhhhh. Of course, both of my free days will be spent parked in front of my machine, doing research and other shit for my two big class projects.
Seminar today was interesting. I couldn't keep from running off at the mouth. I probably irritated everyone else in the class. But I couldn't help it. The prof started talking about objectivity and the role of journalism in promoting democracy and I just... spewed. He can get a little annoying, and I'm sure most of the class is ready to smack him, but the stuff he talks about is really mind-blowing, because it's the same sort of stuff I've been thinking about myself for years. I'm just so glad this stuff is being specifically taught, now. It's like waking up from a 20-year nightmare of hordes of heartless carrion eaters passing themselves off as journalists.
More developments in the two recent personal filter topics. Will post on those tomorrow. One situation has become *headdesk*-inspiring and the other is at a truce for now. Meh.
Also lots more on my mind about the conference, but I'm going to put a bunch of that in my weekly report for my seminar class, so I'll paste that stuff over here when I'm done with that.
*This random message was brought to you by a flyer from our department that used the phrase "over $10,000."
*facepalm*
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