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Barbie Halaby
@monocleediting.bsky.social
My keen eye for your best words. Editor/proofreader/bibliophile/mom who loves black tea, brookies, and sarcasm. EFA & ACES. She/her.
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I know next to nothing about horses, but somehow I knew that "cantor" wasn't quite the right word for their gait. As always, 80% of an editor's life is looking it up. (A "canter" is a speed less than a gallop; a "cantor" is a leader of religious songs or chants.) #amediting#spellcheckcannotsaveyou

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I just wanted to thank everyone who came out for the Freelancers Happy Hour in San Diego ahead of the #ACES2024 conference. We had a great time! If anyone has any questions about prizes, please feel free to reach out to me!

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“Editors want more en dashes but readers don’t [long pause] like them.” —Russell Harper #ACES2024#ThatWordChat

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“Let’s tackle sustainability one squiggly line at a time.” —Laura Standley in The Granmar of Greenwashing at #ACES2024

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Editors are all 😍 at the talk by @petersokolowski.bsky.social#ACES2024: “Dictionaries happen when languages meet.”

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Can you be a “nice-hole”? As an editor, “your writers will say ‘thank you’ instead of *blank* you!” —Bill Graf in “The Beloved Editor” #ACES2024

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“Will the victims of our tracked changes give us an editor’s burial?” (See m.imdb.com/title/tt8847...#ACES2024

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Barbie Halaby
@monocleediting.bsky.social
My keen eye for your best words. Editor/proofreader/bibliophile/mom who loves black tea, brookies, and sarcasm. EFA & ACES. She/her.
310 followers194 following72 posts