The Sunday Papers
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Sundays are for ousting your editor from his throne while he’s on holiday. Here’s a roundup of some good writing from the internet last week.
This list of Games Writing Words I Hate by Riley MacLeod at Aftermath sets out some words games journalists would do well to avoid. I wrote a similar list over ten years ago, and it’s interesting to see many of the examples (“immersive”, “IP”, “franchise”) are still used by enough writers to merit continuing complaints from professional editors like MacLeod.
