The New Yorker finally adopted modernity
When the first email was sent in 1971, Richard Nixon was president. The “Pong” video game was still in development. Pittsburgh pirates were a good baseball team.
That is to say, technological achievements and email have lived long enough to have their own grandchildren. And yet one of the lightest magazines in American history, the New Yorker, has only Update of its copy directives To integrate more contemporary styles of words related to the Internet.
The New Yorker will no longer write about “emails” in your “in the box” that you access on “Internet” via a “website”. Finally, the magazine – better known as the logo sporting the Tout -Tout of Generation Y bags in Brooklyn – will join us in the 21st century.
The leader of the New Yorker’s copy, Andrew Boynton, describes a sort of clandestine meeting among the publishers who took place in January to discuss the possible style changes in the magazine. Even the former copying publishers were involved. (As a person working in a media, I can confirm that it would be strange enough if an editor who has not worked here for ten years arose to discuss how we have to approach our Deepseek coverage).
Nevertheless, this cohort of dedicated grammarians reached an agreement.
“It was decided that, even if no one wanted to change some of the long -standing” original “styles (adolescents, percent, etc.), some of the [the] The new vintage could go there, “wrote Boynton. “Some of you can deplore changes as radically modern, while others are likely to greet them so long.”
This is a departure for the New Yorker, although the most devoted readers of the publication are relieved to know that it will not abandon its firm commitment to dieresia – this is the word for the magazine uses spellings like “Coöperative” or “Reënergize”. In this way, the publishers and readers of the New Yorker can feel superior because they know the difference between Diarage and Umlaut – a distinction that is probably only useful if you work at the New Yorker.
Admittedly, all publications – including Techcrunch – have unique style quirks.
It was not until last year that we were finally allowed to use the Oxford comma. The announcement was refreshing, surprising and exciting.
