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James Harbeck

Seriously, What’s the Problem With Sentence Adverbs? | Linguistics, Frankly

septembre 9, 2014 by James Harbeck

The English language is a very complex and powerful thing, capable of many nuances and quite resistant to simplistic attempts at tidying it up. Sadly, not everyone realizes that. Worse still, many people take very narrow and inconsistent views, focusing on pet peeves while letting parallel instances of usage pass unnoticed. It’s as though a […]

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Abby Egerter

Keenness of Eye and Humble Pie, Along That Path Awards Will Lie

septembre 2, 2014 by Abby Egerter

In this instalment of our “Editors in the Spotlight” series, Abby Egerter interviews editor Jennifer Foster, who worked on the award-winning Dirty Science: 25 Experiments with Soil, by Shar Levine and Leslie Johnstone. Jennifer Foster has been editing for 17 years and freelancing for 10. However, book publishing is something of a new venture for […]

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Peter Midgley

The Lucky Ones

août 26, 2014 by Peter Midgley | 3 commentaires sur The Lucky Ones

How often have I heard the comment that editors are failed writers — or, in the scholarly environment in which I work, failed academics. Even when said in jest, the underlying suggestion is that one way of interacting with words and ideas — the editor’s — is somehow inferior. Such statements also hint at a […]

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Cy Strom

Because … It’s Time!

août 19, 2014 by Cy Strom | 5 commentaires sur Because … It’s Time!

“Whatever the current term for ‘hip’ is, that’s what we want to be …” This, I’m told, was the EAC Rebranding Task Force brief to the bilingual design team chosen to look into the organization’s midlife crisis, the youthful Costa Leclerc. “That’s a startling design — it will be fun to write about it.” This […]

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Melva McLean

An Editor in a Three-Day Writer’s Boot Camp, Day 2

août 12, 2014 by Melva McLean

In every good boot camp movie there’s a scene where a tough army trainer leaves the rebellious recruit out in the cold and rain all night or makes them do 1,000 pushups. This is one way to make the recruit begin to sacrifice ego. The other short story boot camp recruits and I didn’t have […]

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Frances Peck

Notes From Away: Cape Breton English

août 5, 2014 by Frances Peck | 14 commentaires sur Notes From Away: Cape Breton English

My first job, selling sundries the summer I was 12 to the cottagers and campers who flocked to Cape Breton’s fabled Mira River, was about as far from the language business as you can get. Yet a few days in, I learned a humbling linguistic lesson. Three times the customer bellowed his order across the […]

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Dominique Fortier

L’évolution du nom Inuit au fil du temps

juillet 29, 2014 by Dominique Fortier

Saviez-vous que le terme Inuit sans s, à une certaine époque, était pluriel, et que son singulier était le mot Inuk? En effet, on disait « des Inuit » (le mot Inuit signifie « les personnes, les gens » en inuktitut; par conséquent, il est déjà au pluriel) et « un ou une Inuk » (le mot Inuk […]

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Kimmy Beach

An Intricate Relief Carving on an Eggshell: Working With Peter Midgley on The Last Temptation of Bond

juillet 22, 2014 by Kimmy Beach | 2 commentaires sur An Intricate Relief Carving on an Eggshell: Working With Peter Midgley on The Last Temptation of Bond

This is the first in our new “Editors in the Spotlight” series, spotlighting editors who have won awards or participated in award-winning projects. In this post, Kimmy Beach interviews Peter Midgley, who won the Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence for editing her book, The Last Temptation of Bond. ~~~ Peter and I meet at […]

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Melva McLean

An Editor in a Three-Day Writer’s Boot Camp, Day 1

juillet 15, 2014 by Melva McLean | Un commentaire sur An Editor in a Three-Day Writer’s Boot Camp, Day 1

Novelist’s Boot Camp Travel Writing Boot Camp Dissertation Writing Boot Camp Resume Writing Boot Camp Children’s Picture Book Boot Camp Okay, STOP. Right there! Seriously? What could be less suited to boot camp than a kid’s picture book? What’s next? And when did the words “boot camp,” i.e., “a military training camp for new recruits, […]

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Wilf Popoff

Wasted Words: Jobspeak, the Language of Work

juillet 8, 2014 by Wilf Popoff | 6 commentaires sur Wasted Words: Jobspeak, the Language of Work

At an age when young men are learning to shave, I was hanging out at police stations and courthouses. No, I wasn’t in trouble with the law. I was a newspaper reporter, writing about the legal problems of others and the policemen* who brought them to justice. In fact, the only crimes I committed were […]

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