![]() ![]() ![]() Pinker readily admits to an ardor for style guides, Strunk and White’s “The Elements of Style” being an early and amusing example for readers who appreciate the genre. A copy editor’s stock in trade - grammar, syntax, punctuation, and usage, along with the consistent application of their related rules, or what might be called style - makes up a large part of Pinker’s book, his 10th, which was published last year. It’s instructive that the first person Steven Pinker, the noted psycholinguist and cognitive scientist, mentions in the acknowledgments page of his latest book, “The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century,” is his longtime copy editor. ![]()
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