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Temporary AP Style updates during the July 15 verified account compromise event. (PARODY)
Joined July 2020
@HRodriguez15 We’re student journalists, of course we’re not okay
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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
https://t.co/xfMZi9rxMm
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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.
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I’m not okay
AP style: OK, OK'd, OK'ing, OKs. We don't use the spelling okay.
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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:
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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
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Elongated muskrat is acceptable in all references to Tesla CEO and apartheid beneficiary Elon Musk. #APStyleChat
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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
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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
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#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.)
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Under an egalitarian society we wouldn’t need titles. Liberate the Oxford comma liberate us all
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You’re right. I before E no exceptions. Welcome to the world “Fiesty”, “niether” and “wierd” (etc)
@TempAPStyle I before E except after C.
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Tell us your least favorite grammar rule. We’ll fix it. #APStyleChat
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Yes! This is also a good lesson in correctly citing sources. #StreetSmarts
@TempAPStyle I think you mean, as Detective J. J. Bittenbinder would say. Y’know, cuz he was all about throwing them off their rhythm
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#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.
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In other news, congrats to the word “rimes@if,” our newest addition to the Webster's New World College Dictionary! #APStyleChat
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New AP Style Guidelines dictate that — grammatically speaking — whatever Susan Orlean says, goes. #APStyleChat
I am goi f to sleep. My husband has asked me five hundred rimes@if I am alright. That means it’s go to sleep o’clock
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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
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Writers: ALWAYS remember to use a colon to separate your kidneys from your small intestines. #APStyleChat
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effective immediately, the word “stop” must be replaced with the shorthand for “don’t go”: “gon’t” @TempAPStyle
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