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Meet the Comma Queen

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April 16, 2016

Mary Norris: Meet the New Yorker's Comma Queen

09:49 minutes · Filmed Feb 2016 · Posted Apr 2016 · TED2016

"Copy editing for The New Yorker is like playing shortstop for a Major League Baseball team -- every little movement gets picked over by the critics," says Mary Norris, who has played the position for more than thirty years. In that time, she's gotten a reputation for sternness and for being a "comma maniac," but this is unfounded, she says. Above all, her work is aimed at one thing: making writers look good. Explore The New Yorker's distinctive language with the person who knows it best in this charming, informative and funny talk.

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Every time somebody has said to me, "I don't really worry about invasions of privacy because I don't have anything to hide," I always say the same thing to them. I get out a pen, I write down my email address. I say, "Here's my email address. What I want you to do when you get home is email me the passwords to all of your email accounts, not just the nice, respectable work one in your name, but all of them, because I want to be able to just troll through what it is you're doing online, read what I want to read and publish whatever I find interesting. After all, if you're not a bad person, if you're doing nothing wrong, you should have nothing to hide.

Not a single person has taken me up on that offer."

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