-"This signals the demise of western civilization."

-"Look, it was just one misplaced apostrophe."

-"My point exactly."

Sunday, January 13, 2019

Mary Norris has the Total Dream Job!

Do you spot every grammatical error, each punctuation disaster, all dangling modifiers? Do you get upset when you see these infractions? Do you ever wish you were part of the Squad that could fix these things?

Mary Norris, aka The Comma Queen, is a proofreader for The New Yorker!!!! She has also written for the magazine and has published 2 books: Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen and Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen

And she has a TED talk, which is beyond delightful. Here is the link:
https://www.ted.com/talks/mary_norris_the_nit_picking_glory_of_the_new_yorker_s_comma_queen

Enjoy!

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