Two Editors Debating Register on a Late Shift
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Two Editors Debating Register on a Late Shift
Mina: This minute sounds dead formal; can we say commence or just start? Oleg: In the corridor you can start, but in the record we commence, otherwise register collapses. Mina: Plus the regional words will confuse the southern desk if we keep lorry.
Daria: Nevertheless, pragmatic appropriateness means we keep truck for the syndicated feed. Hugo: I guess hedging by register is why one version says it could be argued and the other says maybe. Oleg: Anyway, sociolect markers like innit stay out of the formal draft, full stop.
In a late-night newsroom editing dispute, Mina flagged a sociolect marker that would confuse an outside listener. When Daria inserted you know what I mean into a formal paragraph, pragmatic appropriateness collapsed and reviewers flagged the register error in a late-night newsroom editing dispute.
