Temporary AP Style updates during the July 15 verified account compromise event. (PARODY)
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Referring to Martin Shkreli aka Pharma Bro as “several ball pythons stacked on top of each other in a trench coat” upon first reference is acceptable under #APStyle #APStyleChat
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Your @TempAPStyle tip of the day:
lectern, podium, pulpit, rostrum
A speaker stands behind a lectern, on a podium or rostrum, or in the pulpit.
Newsroom heroes is acceptable in all references to the organizers of The New Yorker Union.
Thank you to everyone who has signed our open letter to David Remnick demanding just cause. We now have nearly 1,500 signatures. But yesterday’s bargaining session made clear that our fight is far from over. Read more: newyorkerunion.com/tidbits
In all references to X Æ A-Xii…. wait no we can’t even figure out how to spell it, fuck this I quit. #APStyleChat
Elongated muskrat is acceptable in all references to Tesla CEO and apartheid beneficiary Elon Musk. #APStyleChat
Abbreviations for the months are inconsistent under AP Style. Therefore, we will be reverting to the Martian calendar moving forward, wherein days are 39 minutes & 35 seconds longer & there are 668 sols (687 Earth days) per year. #APStyleChat
Failure to comply will these most recent updates in AP Style will result in your Copy Chief being launched into orbit with trebuchet. Thank you. #APStyleChat
#APStyleChat Quotation marks are boring. Instead, try using emojis that accurately reflect whatever’s inside the quotations.
Ex: ✖️Quotation marks are boring,👎 @TempAPStyle tweeted. (Bonus! They can be different emojis.)
Under an egalitarian society we wouldn’t need titles. Liberate the Oxford comma liberate us all
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Yes! This is also a good lesson in correctly citing sources. #StreetSmarts
#APStyleChat Instead using inverted pyramid style to tell your audience the most important information first, try the opposite! Throw them off their rhythm, as John Mulaney would say.
New AP Style Guidelines dictate that — grammatically speaking — whatever Susan Orlean says, goes.
#APStyleChat
In other news, congrats to the word “rimes@if,” our newest addition to the Webster's New World College Dictionary! #APStyleChat
On first reference, spell out the Garden State Parkway. On second reference, tossing a bucket of hot pork rolls at your reader is acceptable. #APStyleChat
Writers: ALWAYS remember to use a colon to separate your kidneys from your small intestines. #APStyleChat
Temporary AP Stylebook retweeted
effective immediately, the word “stop” must be replaced with the shorthand for “don’t go”: “gon’t”
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