Saturday, February 10, 2007

Styleissh

What if an author's intention is to mix styles such as pidgin with academic speak? How does one copyedit accurately, meaning how do we make sure the author's intentions still come across when the focus is a hybridity/differing power structures? The author's intentions may be to point out or defy conventional grammatical structure while still maintaining their mastery of it. Ah, maybe this is more of a "regular" editor question, huh.

I ask because I just read Sage Takehiro's column in the BIW, in which she systematically destroys (but is still nice) to a reader's response of her response to Maui Fever; yes, the show on MTV. Anyway, the article was da bomb, but I was thinking, ho, that would be one hard thing to copyedit!

2 comments:

Ryan said...

Maui Fever again?

Pat said...

Jill, I haven't read Sage Takehiro's column and I haven't seen the show. Could you bring the column to class so that we can read and discuss it? Thank you.