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Elizabeth d'Anjou

@elizdanjou.bsky.social

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Freelance editor and workshop presenter. Editing instructor at TMU. Vegetable gardener. Shares space with husband, dog, cats, and bunny. Doting aunt. Ask me about bringing Eight-Step Editing to your team or organization. https://eightstepediting.ca

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Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 11h

Gosh, don't fret about a typo! It was totally clear what you meant. 👍

Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 11h

Lucky! I haven't seen it but I know Ellen and she's smart and delightful about both grammar AND people. 😀

Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 14h

It's one of my favourite cities, and Mile End is the part I know and love best. So glad you got to visit it! 😀

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Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 17h

So many things in our home from that IKEA. 😎

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Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 17h

Hmm. Depends on the paragraph and sentences, IMHO. 😀

Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 17h

Pretty sure that saying "Two is company, three's a crowd" was originally about em dashes.

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Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 18h

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ivory1.bsky.social @ivory1.bsky.social · 18h

Thankful for all the people who use Alt Text.
But please don't rely on the autogenerated slop that appears on GIFs like this one. #Thanksgiving #Canada

a large red white and blue canadian flag is flying in the wind

Alt: a large red white and blue canadian flag is flying in the wind

media.tenor.com

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Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 1d

And ... was it? 😀

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Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of Hallowe'en coming up, share a 4-word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

Copyedit this in Adobe.

Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

She burned their letters.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

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Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 3d

Luckily I won't be running for NYC office, because if it gets out how much I love Montreal bagels it'll be all over. (I love New York bagels too! They're a different species.)

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Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 3d

You have my vote.

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Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 3d

Fantastic! Are you at the Celtic Colours Festival?

Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 4d

Suggested to client that we cut a figure in this paper and their response was basically "But it's so BEAUTIFUL!" and it really is.
(Some parts of this paper are pretty dense; readers DESERVE to see this gorgeous figure! 😀)

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Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 4d

Publishing program at Toronto Metropolitan University in Canada. In the particular paragraph, it's reasonable to leave 1,000-pound, OR go with half-tonne or even 500-kilogram. the point being that even when metric is the default, they need to use judgment & context. Nobody has *weighed* this moose!😀

Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, I've gotta put this one into an exercise for my copyediting students! They struggle to apply the specified style while ALSO thinking about making sense in the context. I have one where they are to change "a 1000-pound moose charged me" to metric and half go "a 454-kilogram moose charged me"... 🤦

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Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 4d

Hilarious. I'm like, yep, yep, yep, that's why I love that show.

Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 5d

I am glad you have one that works well for you! My husband's issues have been vastly helped by a chiropractor as well. Before he began monthly visits, he twice ended up so bad he had to borrow my mother's old walker to get from bedroom to bathroom.

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Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 5d

Oh, there are 11 causes listed! But I only see ten "OTHER" causes.

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Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 5d

I googled "prolapsed" and the description was pretty much "a disc sticking out between the vertebrae." I'd have for sure queried the author to clarify--& to for heaven's sake, use the same wording in the labels and the text! 😀

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Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 5d

Nice catch!
I would have guessed it as a letter o in a one-point-larger font. (I'm an old-school TNY user, where the number 0 is not just aller but differently proportioned.)

Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 5d

Doesn't it say "ten other causes" in addition to a protruding disc, which is one of the 11 items--"prolapsed disc," sixth one down on the right?

That would make it technically correct, though confusingly worded!

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Elizabeth d'Anjou @elizdanjou.bsky.social · 5d

This is an aunt's most sacred duty!