What impresses me is that the other two not professional editors. And they're guys --- almost everyone I know who loves quibbling over the placement of a comma or the capitalisation of a word is, like me, female. Make of that what you will.
Speaking of The Economist Style Guide, I was reading it on the bus and an older gentleman (probably in his 60s) sitting beside me keep glancing over my shoulder at the pages. Eventually he asked me what the book was. I showed it to him and he nodded approvingly, then asked where he could buy it.
Even geekier than reading the Style Guide, I realise, is triumphantly spotting typos in it.
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Haha, that last line is brilliant.
or the belief that finding typos is a form of triumph.
Have you seen the BBC style guide (pdf)? It's actually pretty fun to read. If nothing else, I finally learnt the distinction between the territories of the UK vs. those of Great Britain.
elia diodati > I hadn't seen the PDF version of the BBC guide, no. Just downloaded it now. Now if only I could figure out a way to somehow search all my style guides at once, whether they're in book form or PDF ...
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