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Sue Archer

May I Help You?

novembre 3, 2015 by Sue Archer | 6 commentaires sur May I Help You?

“Hello, Ms. Client? I’m Sue Archer from Customer Relations, and I’m calling to follow up with you about your complaint.” I’ve performed a number of difficult jobs in my life, but by far the most challenging one was a call centre role where I dealt solely with complaints. Every day it was my job to […]

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James Harbeck

Be on the Ball With the Origins of Phrases | Linguistics, Frankly

octobre 27, 2015 by James Harbeck

My topic today may seem a bit ribald, but I’m sure you’ll have a ball with it. It’s about monkey business with the origins of phrases, and how to make sure you stay on the ball and don’t hit a wall. People love stories about the origins of words and phrases, but many of them […]

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Rosemary Shipton

Real E-Books

octobre 20, 2015 by Rosemary Shipton | 19 commentaires sur Real E-Books

E-books are everywhere these days, but how many of them are real e-books, written specifically for that medium? Not many. Most are simply traditional print books that are available on a different platform. At best, like a DVD, they have a few bonus features tacked on at the end or, in the case of children’s […]

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Victoria Neufeldt

Undue Care and Attention

octobre 13, 2015 by Victoria Neufeldt | 4 commentaires sur Undue Care and Attention

Are you ever guilty of writing with undue care and attention? If you didn’t spot the clunker in the preceding sentence, prop your eyes open and attend! We think we know the language and may even make our living by writing and editing, but the ways to slip up are infinite, providing sport for many […]

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Paul Cipywnyk

Tips for Dealing with Freelance Isolation

octobre 6, 2015 by Paul Cipywnyk | 7 commentaires sur Tips for Dealing with Freelance Isolation

Freelance editors are a mousy, introverted, cat-loving lot. They’re pale creatures who are often confined to mouldy basement offices where they stare with glazed eyes at glowing computer monitors, barricaded from the world by stacks upon stacks of dusty tomes. Right? Ha! If that’s what you think, you’ve never been to an Editors Canada conference. […]

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Dominique Fortier

Biais, biaiser/biaisé, par le biais de

septembre 29, 2015 by Dominique Fortier | 2 commentaires sur Biais, biaiser/biaisé, par le biais de

  Biais Le nom biais est, comme bien d’autres, susceptible de nous faire trébucher lorsque l’on a à l’utiliser dans une phrase. D’un côté, on peut l’employer sans crainte lorsqu’il a, par exemple, le sens de « ligne oblique, oblique » (ex. : Elle a taillé la flèche en biais.). De même est-il correct dans le sens de […]

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Sue Archer

Review: Correct English: Reality or Myth? by Geoffrey Marnell

septembre 22, 2015 by Sue Archer | 4 commentaires sur Review: Correct English: Reality or Myth? by Geoffrey Marnell

I’m sure all of us, as editors, have encountered heated discussions about the notion of “correct” English. It’s an inescapable occupational hazard. With the prescriptivists in one corner and the descriptivists in the other, the debate continually rages on. I was curious to know if Geoffrey Marnell would bring anything new to the discussion with […]

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Dwain Richardson

English Editing in Quebec: Mind Your Noun Strings, Please!

septembre 15, 2015 by Dwain Richardson

If you regularly work with French copy, you know that French emphasizes nouns more than English does. This results in our Gallic official language constantly using noun strings — that is, strings containing several nouns in a row. They will often take the form [noun] + of + (the) + [noun]: la gestion de la […]

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Wilf Popoff

Wasted Words: Considering the Case for Verbosity

septembre 8, 2015 by Wilf Popoff | 2 commentaires sur Wasted Words: Considering the Case for Verbosity

Is it necessary to waste a word or two to command attention? Are people apt to disregard phrases not couched in officialese? I shudder at the very notion, but former co-worker Cam Fuller, who fulminates against misusage as The Word Nerd, got me thinking. A recent lecture reveals he is currently contemplating a vacation. After […]

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Melva McLean

The Invisible Vocation in Books

septembre 1, 2015 by Melva McLean | 2 commentaires sur The Invisible Vocation in Books

Well, our blog post about Colin Firth playing the great Maxwell Perkins in the upcoming film Genius had a one-day reach of 3,000 viewers. We editors are the invisible and unsung celebrities of the publishing world, so it feels great to get some recognition in print or on film. Hell, we’ll even take word of […]

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