This Rule I Learned and Then Unlearned

Lingua Franca 2016-09-07

Summary:

thumbnail_this what copyLast week, as I was making final revisions to an article for an edited volume, I worked through all the very helpful comments from one of the volume editors in the margins of the document. I accepted all the suggested emendations until I got to this sentence:

If students can also look at dictionaries for world varieties (e.g., Cassidy and Le Page; Muller, Wright, and Silva), this can enrich discussions of the role dictionaries continue to play in standardizing — and legitimizing — new variet...

Link:

http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2016/09/05/this-rule-i-learned-and-then-unlearned/

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Tags:

editing

Authors:

Anne Curzan

Date tagged:

09/07/2016, 05:31

Date published:

09/05/2016, 18:34