Oops

[desperance]

My copy-edit? Is finished, thanks. Except that I have to decide whether people say "Yes, Majesty" or "Yes, majesty". Etc. I understand the former, but I really don't like too many intrusive capitals. And "majesty" is just a grander version of "lord", and she isn't even quibbling over "yes, lord," so...

However. My copy-edit? Is also wet. Um, distinctly. My bag is ... less waterproof than one might have hoped.

I have fanned it out in the airing-cupboard, and we are hoping it will be dry by tomorrow. Wrinkly, but dry.

In other news: when things are scary-complicated and unfamiliar and come with scary-complicated instructions? It would really help if those instructions were accurate, y'know? And yes, I have spent thirty years buying technology and having the hard-copy instructions not quite match the process because something's been changed in the meantime, but this is actual misprints, illustrations showing the wrong thing, leading a man entirely astray, snarl...

Comments

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Hooray for the completion of copy-edits! Tomorrow we will celebrate this.

Also: it's a very wet book. I'm sure it won't mind.

[lisamantchev.livejournal.com]

*is all about the intrusive caps*

*also a comma-slut*

*glares at you from behind several hundred pages of paper*

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

I'd go with lower case, certainly, unless it's followed by a name (as in 'All rise for His majesty King Wombat IX').

[kateelliott.livejournal.com]

Ha. I have the same 'to cap, or not to cap' problems.

[wishus.livejournal.com]

I agree with your copy-editor. Lord stays lower case in that context. However, when Your or His is implied, I'd go for the caps on Majesty. I don't know why such royal personages insist on better grammatical treatment than their own peers (!). Lower case majesty is more about things being splendid or royal than the monarch-type person. Definitely caps in front of a name for Lord.

[glinda-w.livejournal.com]

And yes, I have spent thirty years buying technology and having the hard-copy instructions not quite match the process because something's been changed in the meantime,

Not sure I've been doing it for 30 years, but counting office acquisitions for which I was responsible, at least 25. Aieeeee. I share your pain...

[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

If 'Majesty' is till a problem, blame Richard II: he was the one who started it. (Why is knowing what is technically correct actually not much use in this sort of circumstance?)

[pennski.livejournal.com]

Because then Chaz can decide whether or not to flaunt it!

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