jaafar
2010-04-05 11:09:38
BackwardsBoy: Read on. This is not a situation where the author gets to insist. He either caves to the editor, or withdraws his manuscript, and I believe that the second choice would be extremely expensive.
Editors are sometimes good and sometimes bad, usually good. But my favorite story is about the time when some moron blue-pencilled Winston Churchill for “ending a sentence with a preposition.” Churchill angrily wrote in reply, “This is something up with which I will not put.”
