This was originally published on the website of ACES: The society for editing
Editors need to think more like Machiavelli.
You know who Niccolò Machiavelli was, right? He’s famous for having said “The ends justify the means.”
Except he never said that. Or wrote it. Continue reading →
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Tagged editing, good grammar, grammar, language rules, Machiavelli, pragmatism, rules
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