Human Beings Write: Keeping It All in Perspective
Our business describes what we do in part as follows:
Longridge Editors LLC improves the quality and performance of our clients’ work by building unique partnerships with each individual and business. We maintain an absolute obsession with accuracy, tempered with the knowledge that the written word is the result of human endeavor.
We want to convey a commitment to language and clarity without conjuring the dreaded Grammar Police. Writing, especially personal writing, should be free from fear and judgement. Consider this wonderful thought from writer Linda Holmes:
“I firmly believe all of that good stuff about our living language, and yet I accidentally hit my own nerve. Love of language, it turns out, is a complicated minefield of things you care about and things you don’t, and one person’s explosive issues are obviously no more valid than anyone else’s.”
We hope you will enjoy Linda’s refreshing article on punctuation, rules, personal choice, and saying what you really mean to say via Going, Going, And Gone?: No, The Oxford Comma Is Safe … For Now : Monkey See : NPR.
Managing Partner
