Word: sticklerã
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...only editor to face this paradox. Plenty of copy editors have succeeded in combining a liberal worldview with a stickler??s adherence to tradition. They recognize simply that grammar leaves room to maneuver. Like political liberals, linguistic liberals don’t hate rules; they just define them differently. Rather than dictating every last detail, rules protect the framework in which dissent, change, and possibility can thrive...
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