I will tell you, because I have only just remembered this - it happened while I was staring in quiet despair at my Create A Usage Guide assignment and angst about said assignment drove it out of my head at the time.

It is in part because the editors are taught to edit that way. Editing students are told that mention of race is irrelevant and ( Read more... )

There is no real need to call a surgery that removed an eye, eye socket, and part of a cheekbone in the course of extracting cancerous material "disfiguring" within a sentence describing what the surgery was removing. It's just redundant. I understand you have all grown up surrounded by scornful rhetoric about "being PC" but honestly here. Stating ( Read more... )