Different Strokes

[itsallovernow]

My boss (not my editor, although she too is my boss) just came into my office and said "Burgeoning? Doesn't that have too much sexual innuendo?" The sentence was Burgeoning artists listen intently to their instructor. Some people, minds in the gutter, I tell ya. Hmph:)

He just came back and asked if I wasn't supposed to be writing to a fourth grade reading level. I said I liked the word, that my editor said it was ok, so it was staying. He just raised an eyebrow and left. I need to make sure it's still there when I proof the layout. Sometimes things mysteriously disappear from my copy!

Comments

[kernezelda]

*in Beavis voice*

Heh heh. You said "strokes".

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Much of my life makes me feel like Beavis and Butthead:)

[searose.livejournal.com]

You are subversive, and must be controlled.

If left to your own devices, I suppose you'd work 'torrid', 'florid' and 'turgid' into seemingly innocent text.

::nods head::

LOL

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Hee hee. It is entirely possible!!

[sorlklewis.livejournal.com]

You'll laugh, but I've never really thought of the word burgeoning as having much sexual inneundo at all (okay, that's not totally true, but... lol).

And anyway, how are those ankle biters going to learn any new words unless they read them? *g*

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

I did not consider the word to be bursting with sexual innuendo either:) Hence, my amusement. And the beautiful thing is the publication is for adults. Most formal things -newspapers, stuff like that, are tailored to a fourth grade reading level so that they're accesible to people with varying amounts of education. If the pub. actually was for fourth graders, I wouldn't have used that word, but I like to give the adults a little credit:)