http://www.contentious.com/2009/12/02/style-guide-poll-html/ Amy Gahran's news and musings on how we communicate in the online age. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:36:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.contentious.com/2009/12/02/style-guide-poll-html/comment-page-1/#comment-1229647 Pierce Presley Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:39:33 +0000 http://www.contentious.com/?p=3041#comment-1229647 You should have added another option: Other (I'll tell you in a comment). If for no better reason than it would give me a chance to expound upon the local style guide for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, where I once edited copy. It's most charming rule, for me, was a prohibition on the word "vomit", claiming that such a word would put a putative reader off their morning cereal. Thus the story of a Scotsman who apparently died when bitten by several illegal venomous snakes he had included the line "he was found covered in throw-up". Pure comedy. You should have added another option: Other (I’ll tell you in a comment). If for no better reason than it would give me a chance to expound upon the local style guide for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, where I once edited copy. It’s most charming rule, for me, was a prohibition on the word “vomit”, claiming that such a word would put a putative reader off their morning cereal. Thus the story of a Scotsman who apparently died when bitten by several illegal venomous snakes he had included the line “he was found covered in throw-up”. Pure comedy.

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