Commas prevent cannibalism and animal cruelty.
March 2011
Here are some new and newish updates to the Associated Press Stylebook:
cellphone
smartphone
email
But!
“Use a hyphen with other e- terms: e-book, e-business, e-commerce,” says the AP.
And!
workbook, workday, workforce, workhorse, workout, workplace, workstation, workweek
I wonder how much longer the AP will insist on capitalizing ‘Internet.’
Fighting words for logophiles.
I wonder if this will register on Edward Tufte’s radar. Tufte wrote “The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint,” which argues (persuasively) that PowerPoint inhibits and corrupts the flow of information from presenter to audience. Of course, that was probably the point here: