Copy editor nerd blog
I can't bring myself to actually read The Other Style Council, the L.A. Weekly copy editors' blog. But I just want you to know it's there. I'm OK with nerding it out (even copy editors can invent their own phraseology, especially when it's me) over things that I'm not doing day in, day out. But copy-editing? (Notice that copy-editing is hyphenated, but copy editor ain't -- and yes, I do mean to say ain't because I want to piss you off). I do it all day and don't need to get in a circle jerk over it.
Question: Are the Daily News' copy editors cool enough to have their own blog?
I leave the question unanswered -- to ponder, as it were.
Join the circle jerk, Steven. It's more fun than you might think.
P.S. "Copy editing" doesn't take a hyphen. En garde!
I figure, if copy-edit, the transitive verb, is hyphenated (as it is in Webster's New World, Third Edition), than the nominalized activity it describes (the gerund, I believe) retains that hyphen, hence copy-editing.
You could call it a matter of style. Over here, I use executive-producing with a hyphen as well.
I go with AP style, which lists "copy editor" as two words. Thus "copy editing" would also be two words, much like "disco dancing." Which I enjoy immensely.
I guess that's why they call it "style."