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captainsblog.....Editorman, Editorman, your friendly neighborhood Editorman....
I may have officially hung up the red pen and exacto knife over a quarter-century ago, but the peeves, they still pet me on the head. Tweets and txts could keep me here all night, as could any number of fumblerule's I could demonstrate, but I'm going to just mention this one, because it's infecting some very talented, educated (educator, in fact), otherwise totally brilliant writers of these parts.
I'll keep it SAS (short and sweet):
IDENTIFY YOUR ACRONYMS IN FIRST REFERENCE, PLZKTHNX.
I know, you know what "it" means. Probably everyone in your field does, and likely everyone with a long history of reading your material does, too. But if Gentle Reader doesn't, GR feels, at best, disconnected and, at worst, stupid.
I don't care if it's academic, medical, or even sport. Jesus on a baseline, I've been obsessed about baseball since 19 freakin '67 and I read perfectly good posts by friends, damned decent people, referencing SABRmetric terms from the past decade which I do. Not. GET. (Note: SABR= Society for American Baseball Research. GET= Not An Acronym.)
Does all that typing cramp your tweet-limit? Is that what's bothering you, bunky? Feel free to link to something that explains it in first reference. Post a picture. Assume I'm the dumbest reader you've got, and at least one or two days a month you're damn likely to be right.
Thank you. TIA.
That is all.
And the one in the header is "American Society For Understanding Obscure Acronyms."
I may have officially hung up the red pen and exacto knife over a quarter-century ago, but the peeves, they still pet me on the head. Tweets and txts could keep me here all night, as could any number of fumblerule's I could demonstrate, but I'm going to just mention this one, because it's infecting some very talented, educated (educator, in fact), otherwise totally brilliant writers of these parts.
I'll keep it SAS (short and sweet):
IDENTIFY YOUR ACRONYMS IN FIRST REFERENCE, PLZKTHNX.
I know, you know what "it" means. Probably everyone in your field does, and likely everyone with a long history of reading your material does, too. But if Gentle Reader doesn't, GR feels, at best, disconnected and, at worst, stupid.
I don't care if it's academic, medical, or even sport. Jesus on a baseline, I've been obsessed about baseball since 19 freakin '67 and I read perfectly good posts by friends, damned decent people, referencing SABRmetric terms from the past decade which I do. Not. GET. (Note: SABR= Society for American Baseball Research. GET= Not An Acronym.)
Does all that typing cramp your tweet-limit? Is that what's bothering you, bunky? Feel free to link to something that explains it in first reference. Post a picture. Assume I'm the dumbest reader you've got, and at least one or two days a month you're damn likely to be right.
Thank you. TIA.
That is all.
And the one in the header is "American Society For Understanding Obscure Acronyms."