Copyedit this! AP Style with a side of silly

Finally. A reason for learning all those tedious AP Style rules: in-jokes. If you are on twitter.com, you can catch up-to-the-minute antics from the Fake AP Stylebook folks. All of it, tongue-in-cheek.

A favorite:

While it's tempting to call them "baristi" because of the Italian roots, the plural of "barista" is "journalism majors."

Another:

HEADLINE WRITERS: Avoid adding LOL and OMG gratuitously.

This is pretty good, too:

If you start a sentence with an action, place the actor immediately after or you will anger Christian Bale.

And this:

Do not use "nonprofit" as an adjective. Use "broke."

Many of the tweets are in response to questions from fellow twits. To play, go here. bk