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Benjamin Dreyer 
author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer’s English, Stet! (the game!), and the DE desk calendar • he/him/his #CopyeditingProTip
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Well, that's fun!
Hey, look: @BCDreyer's game is gift of the day shop.nybooks.com/collections/th…
It's somehow comforting that Lilli Palmer, Siobhán McKenna, and Mai Zetterling share a birthday (and it's today).
One sees a lot of, e.g., “The family moved to Oregon when Sarah was twelve-years-old.”
That’s a big nope.
That’s a big nope.
I’m watching Keeper of the Flame, and my understanding is that I’m not supposed to like it, but so far I’m kinda grooving on it.
I’m watching Keeper of the Flame, and my understanding is that I’m not supposed to like it, but so far I’m kinda grooving on it.
I owe you multiple thanks for Dreyer's English, which sorted out my who/whom shakiness, gave me confidence to split infinitives, and converted me to the series comma.
My favorite is the writers who ask me to read and give notes on a work (usually spec writers; most pros know better). After reading all those pages and offering comments aimed at helping... well, you know what I'm going to say. Defensiveness and nary a thx.
We gotta enjoy these seconds
I asked something once and you answered and I am grateful. Thank you.
Bruce Springsteen walked with a fever so the Pointer Sisters could run with it.
Thank you!
Given that the Dreyer's English calendar has been all about hyphens lately, I have a timely question for @BCDreyer: In this construction, should "deal making" be hyphenated? pic.twitter.com/IEXMEJWH5g
I just closed out GoToMyPC and am heading out!
To be clear: it probably won't be the last time they ask you a question. But it will certainly be the last time they get an answer.
Not too late. It’s amazing out.
I want to issue a pre-emptive thank you. Thank you.
So I shouldn’t ask you about Joan v. Bette, is what you’re saying? 😊
Effective 30 minutes ago.
No questions yet. But, a big Thank You for all your sage and free advice.
I feel like this is the consensus corner we’ve been forced into.
NOT YOU. But you're welcome anyway.
Thank you. 😊
OK, new policy here at House of Copyediting Pro Tip:
If you ask me a question and I answer it, and your response is entirely "I don't like your answer" and the words "thank you" are nowhere to be seen, that's the last time you'll ever be asking me a question.
If you ask me a question and I answer it, and your response is entirely "I don't like your answer" and the words "thank you" are nowhere to be seen, that's the last time you'll ever be asking me a question.
OK, new policy here at House of Copyediting Pro Tip:
If you ask me a question and I answer it, and your response is entirely "I don't like your answer" and the words "thank you" are nowhere to be seen, that's the last time you'll ever be asking me a question.
If you ask me a question and I answer it, and your response is entirely "I don't like your answer" and the words "thank you" are nowhere to be seen, that's the last time you'll ever be asking me a question.
Of the front jacket of the Kellyanne Conway tell-all, I guess the best that can be said is:
Decisions were made.
Decisions were made.
There was a convention, widely adopted around the Star Wars episodes 1-3 trilogy, that the em dash should separate subtitle from title when the title includes a colon, e.g. Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace I hated this but accepted it, as one does. But now …
Consecutive colons would unnerve me to no end.
I watched that clip saying "Oh my god" over and over and over again. Oh my god.
The official, or at least commonest, version seems to be: Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One You can certainly honor that, but I would forgive anyone who opted for: Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning, Part One
Only the first part, but the way she captures every white-haired middle class suburban lady of a certain age is both eerie and gutting pic.twitter.com/y3J0tqdQaB
I’m sorry, chief. I should have capitalized “Pole.” 😉
She can star in the version that also has Josephine Baker as Solange and Joan C as Carlotta.
She's one of those actors I think of as always having been old (like Patrick Stewart). Seeing a twenty-something Lansbury in her first role (1944's Gaslight) broke my brain.
She might well have been definitive. She's absolutely perfect for the role, and I'd like to think she would not have shied away from the acidic aspects.
Man, i wish I’d seen that
Mitzi would never in a million years have played it, but she sure as hell could have.
The last full-tilt Dreyer family theater party was to see Angela Lansbury in Deuce in 2007, the notion being that she hadn't been on Broadway since 1983 and this was probably gonna be it.
Who knew she was just catching her breath before three more Broadway roles?
Who knew she was just catching her breath before three more Broadway roles?
A particularly treasured memory: seeing Barbara Barrie as the teenage Katrin in a 2014 production of I Remember Mama, all of whose roles, male and female, young and old, were played by actresses of a certain age and then some. It was glorious. pic.twitter.com/RXESEA221F
Happy birthday, Barbara Barrie! pic.twitter.com/3w1An4P4RM
My best to date is Donna McKechnie, who really got the girlish part and the nasty drunk part—and who, at the end of "Who's That Woman?," seemed so happy (either as Sally or as herself or as both) to have had the chance to hoof a bit.
Dorothy Collins remains the GOAT but Victoria Clark is the best Sally I've seen live.
You forgot Barbara Cook and Donna McKechnie.
Why we don’t hyphenate -ly adverbial phrases: pic.twitter.com/pL2B4hnoH4
might have some thoughts on how it's written on IMDb. imdb.com/title/tt960321…
That makes one of you.
Mayor Eric Adams, speaking to the family of the man who was killed on the subway this weekend: "It is my responsibility to keep New Yorkers safe. My heart goes out to that family. I'm sorry they lost their loved one... I thank god I'm the mayor right now."
