Ober Dicta

2:57 PM

"...Generous to a fault with fun-facty arcana unlikely to prove useful even in an actuarially optimal lifetime spent with blue pencil in hand. ... It's unaccountable, too, that (the editor's) occasional pronouncements on punctuation, as well as his own punctuational manner, now and then conflict with practice set forth as standard elsewhere in the Manual. (Surely the least we can expect of a book assailing error and inconsistency is that its chapters put up a united front.)"

Slate takes a look at the 15th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style and doesn't like what it sees. (via Bookslut)