Editors as ammunition

Subject: Editors as ammunition
From: "Sigrid A. Schoepel" <sas -at- WIGGINS -dot- PENTATECHINC -dot- COM>
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 09:06:59 -0500

>Dig up the CHICAGO MANUAL OF STYLE (from the University of Chicago Press)
>and use its section about how wonderful and important editors are as
>ammunition. -R. Plamondon

I've often wanted to stuff my editors in a cannon and fire it. I didn't realize that the Chicago Manual of Style advocated such things. This is going to be a good week. :)

Sigrid Schoepel
Senior Technical Writer
sas -at- pentatechinc -dot- com


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