Temporary AP Stylebook @TempAPStyle
Temporary AP Style updates during the July 15 verified account compromise event. (PARODY) Joined July 2020-
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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 elle.com/life-love/a350…
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.
I’m not okay
Newsroom heroes is acceptable in all references to the organizers of The New Yorker Union.
Newsroom heroes is acceptable in all references to the organizers of The New Yorker Union.
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
Elongated muskrat is acceptable in all references to Tesla CEO and apartheid beneficiary Elon Musk. #APStyleChat
#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.)
Under an egalitarian society we wouldn’t need titles. Liberate the Oxford comma liberate us all
You’re right. I before E no exceptions. Welcome to the world “Fiesty”, “niether” and “wierd” (etc)
You’re right. I before E no exceptions. Welcome to the world “Fiesty”, “niether” and “wierd” (etc)
Tell us your least favorite grammar rule. We’ll fix it. #APStyleChat
Yes! This is also a good lesson in correctly citing sources. #StreetSmarts
Yes! This is also a good lesson in correctly citing sources. #StreetSmarts
#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.
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
Writers: ALWAYS remember to use a colon to separate your kidneys from your small intestines. #APStyleChat
effective immediately, the word “stop” must be replaced with the shorthand for “don’t go”: “gon’t” @TempAPStyle
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From here on out, the plural of moose is going to be “meese.” Just to make life a little more spicy.
effective immediately, the word “stop” must be replaced with the shorthand for “don’t go”: “gon’t” @TempAPStyle
In response to why CDC was blocked from testifying at a House hearing next week on reopening schools, a White House aide told me: “Dr. Redfield has testified on the Hill at least four times over the last three months. We need our doctors focused on the pandemic response.”
@TempAPStyle Suggested: mndy 2sdy wensdy thrsdy fridy satrdy sndy
the creation of @TempAPStyle is the best thing that has happened in the last week
friendship with @APStylebook is canceled, i only know @TempAPStyle now
.@TempAPStyle, you are my new fav account. we should go to student journo prom together—there will pizza, lukewarm coffee, and newsroom dogs as chaperones.
someone give these kids a pulitzer x.com/tempapstyle/st…
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Honestly, I’m just honored to be in the young journos slack channel that birthed this masterpiece of a parody account
If you misspell someone’s name try reaching out to them and seeing if they’d consider changing it.
hate that no one taught me this in j school
grammar is meaningless no gods no masters no punctuation #APStyleChat
Is this thread real or am I hallucinating
@TempAPStyle saying goodnight and then continuing to tweet? this really is the true journo stylebook acct
@TempAPStyle AP style says always use Arabic figures, without st, nd, rd or th, for dates. For example, July 15, not July 15th.