{"id":3798,"date":"2012-02-05T21:02:42","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T04:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3798"},"modified":"2012-02-05T21:05:08","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T04:05:08","slug":"the-new-yorker-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3798","title":{"rendered":"The “New Yorker rule”"},"content":{"rendered":"

M. and I work together on many editing projects. Yesterday, the author of a journal article, reading her galleys, said that she thought that expressions such as “sui generis,”\u00a0 “axis mundi,”*\u00a0<\/strong> and “Weltanschauung<\/a>” should be italicized as foreign expressions. (I had them in roman.)<\/p>\n

I consulted the holy scriptures<\/a>, where in chapter 7, verse 52, I read, “Foreign words and p<\/em>ases familiar to most readers and listed in Webster’s<\/em> should appear in roman (not<\/em> italics) if used in an English context. . . . German nouns, if in Webster’s<\/em>, are lowercased.”<\/p>\n

I assume that the online <\/a>Webster’s<\/a> <\/em>is all right. But what about “most readers”?<\/p>\n

I propose “the New Yorker<\/em> rule.” Although The New Yorker<\/em> is not an academic journal, its writers and editors seem to expect a level of comfort with common phrases from other major world languages (Chinese excepted, thus far).<\/p>\n

Therefore, if The New Yorker<\/em> puts a phrase like “sui generis” in roman, so shall we. A quick search of the phrase on their website will tell us. They do capitalize Weltanschauung when writing in English, however, which is a deviation from the true Chicago path.<\/p>\n

* I have read too much Eliade to ever put axis mundi in italics anyway.<\/h5>\n

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M. and I work together on many editing projects. Yesterday, the author of a journal article, reading her galleys, said that she thought that expressions such as “sui generis,”\u00a0 “axis mundi,”*\u00a0 and “Weltanschauung” should be italicized as foreign expressions. (I had them in roman.) 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