Showing posts with label and vs. or. Show all posts
Showing posts with label and vs. or. Show all posts
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Copy Edit du Jour
From an article I'm editing:
There's an issue here that's cropping up so much lately I'm starting to wonder: Is it happening more? Or did I fail to notice it before?
The issue I'm talking about: "or."
The town doesn't offer surfing, body boarding or fishing. It offers surfing, body boarding and fishing. I wonder whether this happens because the list got so long that the writer forgot how the sentence was structured.
Just an interesting little mental blip is all. I changed "or" to "and."
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Santa Cruz also offers year-round golf, riding the dunes in a four-wheel ATV, horseback riding, surfing, body boarding or fishing from its 1,100-foot pier.
There's an issue here that's cropping up so much lately I'm starting to wonder: Is it happening more? Or did I fail to notice it before?
The issue I'm talking about: "or."
The town doesn't offer surfing, body boarding or fishing. It offers surfing, body boarding and fishing. I wonder whether this happens because the list got so long that the writer forgot how the sentence was structured.
Just an interesting little mental blip is all. I changed "or" to "and."
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