EldritchPeep

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tomw, to random
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One upside to never posting on Twitter is that you don't have to remember to post about a passing topic just to avoid someone later saying "oh so you posted about x but you never mentioned y".

EldritchPeep,

@tomw It took me way too long to read that as the variable x and not the new name of the site formerly associated with birds.

tomw, to random
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Deciding between "is" and "are" for collective nouns has become an unwinnable situation.

The natural-sounding answer is usually "are" but you get a lot of upset pedants.

EldritchPeep, (edited )

@tomw @2du This might be my American showing, but it would be jarring to hear "The party leadership are—". The committee is in agreement. The couple is planning a fall wedding. The team is headed to the championship. The crowd is large. The family is moving. The Senate is voting.

tomw, (edited ) to random
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Do you write "T-shirt" or "t-shirt"?

It isn't a proper noun, I know, but to me it makes more sense to have the capital T because... the T looks like the shape of the shirt, and that's clearly why it is named that way. Lowercase t is the wrong shape.

EldritchPeep,

@tomw For me, it's T-shirt because it's a compound of T and shirt. Also acceptable is tee-shirt (where tee is the word for T). But t-shirt just doesn't work.

EldritchPeep,

@tomw @mattodon There's also A-shirts and A-line dresses/skirts.

tomw, to random
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Would you have a clue what I meant if I used the word "overdisplayed"?

Example in context: "The headline is too short and the pic is overdisplayed."

This is a word I picked up working in print ~a decade ago. Web citations seem non-existent.

EldritchPeep,

@tomw Never used overdisplayed, overmatter, or overset when I was in newspaper copyediting, but they all sound like overflow issues (exceeding the desired/available boundaries). Ragged right is one of the few copyediting jargon terms that I still use (and hear) frequently even among folks with no professional print backgrounds. 🤷

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